The Indifferent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCCDDDEEDFFFDD GHHGIIIDD| I can love both fair and brown | A |
| Her whom abundance melts and her whom want betrays | B |
| Her who loves loneness best and her who masks and plays | B |
| Her whom the country formed and whom the town | A |
| Her who believes and her who tries | C |
| Her who still weeps with spongy eyes | C |
| And her who is dry cork and never cries | C |
| I can love her and her and you and you | D |
| I can love any so she be not true | D |
| Will no other vice content you | D |
| Will it not serve your turn to do as did your mothers | E |
| Or have you old vices spent and now would find out others | E |
| Or doth a fear that men are true torment you | D |
| Oh we are not be not you so | F |
| Let me and do you twenty know | F |
| Rob me but bind me not and let me go | F |
| Must I who came to travel thorough you | D |
| Grow your fixed subject because you are true | D |
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| Venus heard me sigh this song | G |
| And by Love's sweetest part Variety she swore | H |
| She heard not this till now and that it should be so no more | H |
| She went examined and returned ere long | G |
| And said Alas some two or three | I |
| Poor heretics in love there be | I |
| Which think to 'stablish dangerous constancy | I |
| But I have told them Since you will be true | D |
| You shall be true to them who're false to you | D |
John Donne
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