Absent Of Thee I Languish Still Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDF GHGH IJIJ| Absent from thee I languish still | A |
| Then ask me not when I return | B |
| The straying fool 'twill plainly kill | A |
| To wish all day all night to mourn | C |
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| Dear from thine arms then let me fly | D |
| That my fantastic mind may prove | E |
| The torments it deserves to try | D |
| That tears my fixed heart from my love | F |
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| When wearied with a world of woe | G |
| To thy safe bosom I retire | H |
| where love and peace and truth does flow | G |
| May I contented there expire | H |
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| Lest once more wandering from that heaven | I |
| I fall on some base heart unblest | J |
| Faithless to thee false unforgiven | I |
| And lose my everlasting rest | J |
Lord John Wilmot
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