Fair Iris I Love And Hourly I Die Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEBBFG| Fair Iris I love and hourly I die | A |
| But not for a lip nor a languishing eye | A |
| She's fickle and false and there I agree | B |
| For I am as false and as fickle as she | B |
| We neither believe what either can say | C |
| And neither believing we neither betray | C |
| - | |
| 'Tis civil to swear and say things of course | D |
| We mean not the taking for better or worse | E |
| When present we love when absent agree | B |
| I think not of Iris nor Iris of me | B |
| The legend of love no couple can find | F |
| So easy to part or so equally join'd | G |
John Dryden
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