Song To A Fair Young Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD BEBEFF GHGHII JKLKMM| Ask not the cause why sullen Spring | A |
| So long delays her flowers to bear | B |
| Why warbling birds forget to sing | A |
| And winter storms invert the year | C |
| Chloris is gone and fate provides | D |
| To make it Spring where she resides | D |
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| Chloris is gone the cruel fair | B |
| She cast not back a pitying eye | E |
| But left her lover in despair | B |
| To sigh to languish and to die | E |
| Ah how can those fair eyes endure | F |
| To give the wounds they will not cure | F |
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| Great God of Love why hast thou made | G |
| A face that can all hearts command | H |
| That all religions can invade | G |
| And change the laws of every land | H |
| Where thou hadst placed such power before | I |
| Thou shouldst have made her mercy more | I |
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| When Chloris to the temple comes | J |
| Adoring crowds before her fall | K |
| She can restore the dead from tombs | L |
| And every life but mine recall | K |
| I only am by Love designed | M |
| To be the victim for mankind | M |
John Dryden
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