The Mistress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFH IJKJ LMNM OMOM MPMP GOHO QARA| An age in her embraces passed | A |
| Would seem a winter's day | B |
| When life and light with envious haste | C |
| Are torn and snatched away | B |
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| But oh how slowly minutes roll | D |
| When absent from her eyes | E |
| That feed my love which is my soul | D |
| It languishes and dies | E |
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| For then no more a soul but shade | F |
| It mournfully does move | G |
| And haunts my breast by absence made | F |
| The living tomb of love | H |
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| You wiser men despise me not | I |
| Whose love sick fancy raves | J |
| On shades of souls and Heaven knows what | K |
| Short ages live in graves | J |
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| Whene'er those wounding eyes so full | L |
| Of sweetness you did see | M |
| Had you not been profoundly dull | N |
| You had gone mad like me | M |
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| Nor censure us you who perceive | O |
| My best beloved and me | M |
| Sign and lament complain and grieve | O |
| You think we disagree | M |
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| Alas 'tis sacred jealousy | M |
| Love raised to an extreme | P |
| The only proof 'twixt her and me | M |
| We love and do not dream | P |
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| Fantastic fancies fondly move | G |
| And in frail joys believe | O |
| Taking false pleasure for true love | H |
| But pain can ne'er deceive | O |
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| Kind jealous doubts tormenting fears | Q |
| And anxious cares when past | A |
| Prove our heart's treasure fixed and dear | R |
| And make us blessed at last | A |
John Wilmot
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