Witchcraft By A Picture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDD EFGFCCCI fix mine eye on thine and there | A |
Pity my picture burning in thine eye | B |
My picture drowned in a transparent tear | A |
When I look lower I espy | C |
Hadst thou the wicked skill | D |
By pictures made and mard to kill | D |
How many ways mightst thou perform thy will | D |
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But now I have drunk thy sweet salt tears | E |
And though thou pour more I'll depart | F |
My picture vanished vanish fears | G |
That I can be endamaged by that art | F |
Though thou retain of me | C |
One picture more yet that will be | C |
Being in thine own heart from all malice free | C |
John Donne
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