You Say You Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCE AFGHGE AIIIII DJCKCI IGIIIII | A |
You say you love but with a voice | B |
Chaster than a nun's who singeth | C |
The soft Vespers to herself | D |
While the chime bell ringeth | C |
O love me truly | E |
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II | A |
You say you love but with a smile | F |
Cold as sunrise in September | G |
As you were Saint Cupid 's nun | H |
And kept his weeks of Ember | G |
O love me truly | E |
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III | A |
You say you love but then your lips | I |
Coral tinted teach no blisses | I |
More than coral in the sea | I |
They never pout for kisses | I |
O love me truly | I |
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IV | D |
You say you love but then your hand | J |
No soft squeeze for squeeze returneth | C |
It is like a statue's dead | K |
While mine to passion burneth | C |
O love me truly | I |
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V | I |
O breathe a word or two of fire | G |
Smile as if those words should bum me | I |
Squeeze as lovers should O kiss | I |
And in thy heart inurn me | I |
O love me truly | I |
John Keats
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