Marriage A-la-mode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIJIWhy should a foolish marriage vow | A |
Which long ago was made | B |
Oblige us to each other now | A |
When passion is decay'd | B |
We lov'd and we lov'd as long as we could | C |
Till our love was lov'd out in us both | D |
But our marriage is dead when the pleasure is fled | E |
'Twas pleasure first made it an oath | D |
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If I have pleasures for a friend | F |
And farther love in store | G |
What wrong has he whose joys did end | F |
And who could give no more | G |
'Tis a madness that he should be jealous of me | H |
Or that I should bar him of another | I |
For all we can gain is to give our selves pain | J |
When neither can hinder the other | I |
John Dryden
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