Nay, Do Not Ask Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADED FGHG IJKJ ABLB| Nay do not ask me Sweet if I have loved before | A |
| Or if mayhap in other years to be | B |
| A younger fairer face than thine I know | C |
| I'll love her more than thee | B |
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| What should it matter if I've loved before | A |
| So that I love thee now and love thee best | D |
| What matters it that I should love again | E |
| If first the daisy buds blow o'er thy breast | D |
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| Love has the waywardness of strange caprice | F |
| One can not chain it to a recreant heart | G |
| Nor when around the soul its tendrils twine | H |
| Can will the clinging silken bonds to part | G |
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| It is enough I hold thee prisoned in my arms | I |
| And drink the dewy fragrance of thy breath | J |
| And earth and heaven and hades are forgot | K |
| And love holds carnival and laughs at death | J |
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| Then do not ask me Sweet if I have loved before | A |
| Or if some day my heart might turn from thee | B |
| In this brief hour thou hast my soul of love | L |
| And thou are Is and Was and May be all to me | B |
Madge Morris Wagner
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