The Will Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFFF GHIIJJCCC IICCKKCCC IIIILLFFF IIGHMMJJJ NNOPQRCCC| Before I sigh my last gasp let me breathe | A |
| Great Love some legacies I here bequeath | B |
| Mine eyes to Argus if mine eyes can see | C |
| If they be blind then Love I give them thee | C |
| My tongue to Fame to ambassadors mine ears | D |
| To women or the sea my tears | E |
| Thou Love hast taught me heretofore | F |
| By making me serve her who had twenty more | F |
| That I should give to none but such as had too much before | F |
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| My constancy I to the planets give | G |
| My truth to them who at the court do live | H |
| My ingenuity and openness | I |
| To Jesuits to buffoons my pensiveness | I |
| My silence to any who abroad hath been | J |
| My money to a Capuchin | J |
| Thou Love taught'st me by appointing me | C |
| To love there where no love received can be | C |
| Only to give to such as have an incapacity | C |
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| My faith I give to Roman Catholics | I |
| All my good works unto the Schismatics | I |
| Of Amsterdam my best civility | C |
| And courtship to an University | C |
| My modesty I give to soldiers bare | K |
| My patience let gamesters share | K |
| Thou Love taught'st me by making me | C |
| Love her that holds my love disparity | C |
| Only to give to those that count my gifts indignity | C |
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| I give my reputation to those | I |
| Which were my friends mine industry to foes | I |
| To schoolmen I bequeath my doubtfulness | I |
| My sickness to physicians or excess | I |
| To nature all that I in rhyme have writ | L |
| And to my company my wit | L |
| Thou Love by making me adore | F |
| Her who begot this love in me before | F |
| Taught'st me to make as though I gave when I do but restore | F |
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| To him for whom the passing bell next tolls | I |
| I give my physic books my written rolls | I |
| Of moral counsels I to Bedlam give | G |
| My brazen medals unto them which live | H |
| In want of bread to them which pass among | M |
| All foreigners mine English tongue | M |
| Though Love by making me love one | J |
| Who thinks her friendship a fit portion | J |
| For younger lovers dost my gifts thus disproportion | J |
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| Therefore I'll give no more but I'll undo | N |
| The world by dying because love dies too | N |
| Then all your beauties will be no more worth | O |
| Than gold in mines where none doth draw it forth | P |
| And all your graces no more use shall have | Q |
| Than a sun dial in a grave | R |
| Thou Love taught'st me by making me | C |
| Love her who doth neglect both me and thee | C |
| To invent and practise this one way to annihilate all three | C |
John Donne
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