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