Marriage à-la-mode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIJI| Why 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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