To His Mistress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBB CCC DDD EEE BBB CCC DDD DDD CCC BBB DDD CCC| After Quarles | A |
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| Why dost thou shade thy lovely face O why | B |
| Does that eclipsing hand of thine deny | B |
| The sunshine of the Sun's enlivening eye | B |
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| Without thy light what light remains in me | C |
| Thou art my life my way my light 's in thee | C |
| I live I move and by thy beams I see | C |
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| Thou art my life if thou but turn away | D |
| My life 's a thousand deaths Thou art my way | D |
| Without thee Love I travel not but stray | D |
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| My light thou art without thy glorious sight | E |
| My eyes are darken'd with eternal night | E |
| My Love thou art my way my life my light | E |
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| Thou art my way I wander if thou fly | B |
| Thou art my light if hid how blind am I | B |
| Thou art my life if thou withdraw'st I die | B |
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| My eyes are dark and blind I cannot see | C |
| To whom or whither should my darkness flee | C |
| But to that light and who 's that light but thee | C |
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| If I have lost my path dear lover say | D |
| Shall I still wander in a doubtful way | D |
| Love shall a lamb of Israel's sheepfold stray | D |
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| My path is lost my wandering steps do stray | D |
| I cannot go nor can I safely stay | D |
| Whom should I seek but thee my path my way | D |
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| And yet thou turn'st thy face away and fly'st me | C |
| And yet I sue for grace and thou deny'st me | C |
| Speak art thou angry Love or only try'st me | C |
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| Thou art the pilgrim's path the blind man's eye | B |
| The dead man's life On thee my hopes rely | B |
| If I but them remove I surely die | B |
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| Dissolve thy sunbeams close thy wings and stay | D |
| See see how I am blind and dead and stray | D |
| O thou that art my life my light my way | D |
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| Then work thy will If passion bid me flee | C |
| My reason shall obey my wings shall be | C |
| Stretch'd out no farther than from me to thee | C |
John Wilmot
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