Sonnet Xix: You Cannot Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCADADEFEGDD| To Humor | A |
| - | |
| You cannot love my pretty heart and why | B |
| There was a time you told me that you would | C |
| But now again you will the same deny | B |
| If it might please you would to God you could | C |
| What will you hate Nay that you will not neither | A |
| Nor love nor hate how then What will you do | D |
| What will you keep a mean then betwixt either | A |
| Or will you love me and yet hate me too | D |
| Yet serves this not What next What other shift | E |
| You will and will not what a coil is here | F |
| I see your craft now I perceive your drift | E |
| And all this while I was mistaken there | G |
| Your love and hate is this I now do prove you | D |
| You love in hate by hate to make me love you | D |
Michael Drayton
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