The Dissolution Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBACDEEFFECCCCGHI JJII| She's dead and all which die | A |
| To their first elements resolve | B |
| And we were mutual elements to us | C |
| And made of one another | D |
| My body then doth hers involve | B |
| And those things whereof I consist hereby | A |
| In me abundant grow and burdenous | C |
| And nourish not but smother | D |
| My fire of passion sighs of air | E |
| Water of tears and earthly sad despair | E |
| Which my materials be | F |
| But near worn out by love's security | F |
| She to my loss doth by her death repair | E |
| And I might live long wretched so | C |
| But that my fire doth with my fuel grow | C |
| Now as those Active Kings | C |
| Whose foreign conquest treasure brings | C |
| Receive more and spend more and soonest break | G |
| This which I am amazed that I can speak | H |
| This death hath with my store | I |
| My use increased | J |
| And so my soul more earnestly released | J |
| Will outstrip hers as bullets flown before | I |
| A latter bullet may o'ertake the powder being more | I |
John Donne
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