The Legacy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCABCC DAADDAEE FGGFFGDD| When I died last and Dear I die | A |
| As often as from thee I go | B |
| Though it be but an hour ago | B |
| And Lovers' hours be full eternity | C |
| I can remember yet that I | A |
| Something did say and something did bestow | B |
| Though I be dead which sent me I should be | C |
| Mine own executor and legacy | C |
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| I heard me say Tell her anon | D |
| That myself that is you not I | A |
| Did kill me and when I felt me die | A |
| I bid me send my heart when I was gone | D |
| But alas could there find none | D |
| When I had ripp'd me and search'd where hearts should lie | A |
| It kill'd me again that I who still was true | E |
| In life in my last will should cozen you | E |
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| Yet I found something like a heart | F |
| But colors it and corners had | G |
| It was not good it was not bad | G |
| It was intire to none and few had part | F |
| As good as could be made by art | F |
| It seem'd and therefore for our losses sad | G |
| I meant to send this heart in stead of mine | D |
| But oh no man could hold it for 'twas thine | D |
John Donne
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