Ah, How Sweet It Is To Love! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFEGG HIJIKK LLMNN| Ah how sweet it is to love | A |
| Ah how gay is young Desire | B |
| And what pleasing pains we prove | C |
| When we first approach Love's fire | B |
| Pains of love be sweeter far | D |
| Than all other pleasures are | D |
| - | |
| Sighs which are from lovers blown | E |
| Do but gently heave the heart | F |
| Ev'n the tears they shed alone | E |
| Lovers when they lose their breath | G |
| Bleed away in easy death | G |
| - | |
| Love and Time with reverence use | H |
| Treat them like a parting friend | I |
| Nor the golden gifts refuse | J |
| Which in youth sincere they send | I |
| For each year their price is more | K |
| And they less simple than before | K |
| - | |
| Love like spring tides full and high | L |
| But each tide does less supply | L |
| Till they quite shrink in again | M |
| If a flow in age appear | N |
| 'Tis but rain and runs not clear | N |
John Dryden
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