You Charm'd Me Not With That Fair Face Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HGHG| You charm'd me not with that fair face | A |
| Though it was all divine | B |
| To be another's is the grace | A |
| That makes me wish you mine | B |
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| The Gods and Fortune take their part | C |
| Who like young monarchs fight | D |
| And boldly dare invade that heart | C |
| Which is another's right | D |
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| First mad with hope we undertake | E |
| To pull up every bar | F |
| But once possess'd we faintly make | E |
| A dull defensive war | G |
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| Now every friend is turn'd a foe | H |
| In hope to get our store | G |
| And passion makes us cowards grow | H |
| Which made us brave before | G |
John Dryden
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