The Sun Rising Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBCBDD EFFEGDGDHI JBBDDBDBKL| Busy old fool unruly sun | A |
| Why dost thou thus | B |
| Through windows and through curtains call on us | B |
| Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run | A |
| Saucy pedantic wretch go chide | C |
| Late schoolboys and sour 'prentices | B |
| Go tell court huntsmen that the King will ride | C |
| Call country ants to harvest offices | B |
| Love all alike no season knows nor clime | D |
| Nor hours days months which are the rags of time | D |
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| Thy beams so reverend and strong | E |
| Why shouldst thou think | F |
| I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink | F |
| But that I would not lose her sight so long | E |
| If her eyes have not blinded thine | G |
| Look and tomorrow late tell me | D |
| Whether both th' Indias of spice and mine | G |
| Be where thou left'st them or lie here with me | D |
| Ask for those kings whom thou saw'st yesterday | H |
| And thou shalt hear 'All here in one bed lay' | I |
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| She is all states and all princes I | J |
| Nothing else is | B |
| Princes do but play us compared to this | B |
| All honour's mimic all wealth alchemy | D |
| Thou sun art half as happy as we | D |
| In that the world's contracted thus | B |
| Thine age asks ease and since thy duties be | D |
| To warm the world that's done in warming us | B |
| Shine here to us and thou art everywhere | K |
| This bed thy centre is these walls thy sphere | L |
John Donne
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