The Flea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEE FGABDDCCC HICCJJCCC| Mark but this flea and mark in this | A |
| How little that which thou deny'st me is | B |
| It sucked me first and now sucks thee | C |
| And in this flea our two bloods mingled be | C |
| Thou know'st that this cannot be said | D |
| A sin nor shame nor loss of maidenhead | D |
| Yet this enjoys before it woo | E |
| And pampered swells with one blood made of two | E |
| And this alas is more than we would do | E |
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| Oh stay three lives in one flea spare | F |
| Where we almost yea more than married are | G |
| This flea is you and I and this | A |
| Our marriage bed and marriage temple is | B |
| Though parents grudge and you w'are met | D |
| And cloistered in these living walls of jet | D |
| Though use make you apt to kill me | C |
| Let not to that self murder added be | C |
| And sacrilege three sins in killing three | C |
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| Cruel and sudden hast thou since | H |
| Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence | I |
| Wherein could this flea guilty be | C |
| Except in that drop which it sucked from thee | C |
| Yet thou triumph'st and say'st that thou | J |
| Find'st not thyself nor me the weaker now | J |
| 'Tis true then learn how false fears be | C |
| Just so much honor when thou yield'st to me | C |
| Will waste as this flea's death took life from thee | C |
John Donne
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