The Paradox Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGAAHHEE| No Lover saith I love nor any other | A |
| Can judge a perfect Lover | A |
| Hee thinkes that else none can nor will agree | B |
| That any loves but hee | B |
| I cannot say I'lov'd for who can say | C |
| Hee was kill'd yesterday | C |
| Lover withh excesse of heat more yong than old | D |
| Death kills with too much cold | D |
| Wee dye but once and who lov'd last did die | E |
| Hee that saith twice doth lye | E |
| For though hee seeme to move and stirre a while | F |
| It doth the sense beguile | F |
| Such life is like the light which bideth yet | G |
| When the lights life is set | G |
| Or like the heat which fire in solid matter | A |
| Leave behinde two houres after | A |
| Once I lov's and dy'd and am now become | H |
| Mine Epitaph and Tombe | H |
| Here dead men speake their last and so do I | E |
| Love slaine loe here I lye | E |
John Donne
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