The Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CCC DDD EEE FFF GGG HHH III JJJ EEE EEE JJJ JJJ JJJ III AAA| If thus we needs must goe | A |
| What shall our one Heart doe | A |
| This One made of our Two | B |
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| Madame two Hearts we brake | C |
| And from them both did take | C |
| The best one Heart to make | C |
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| Halfe this is of your Heart | D |
| Mine in the other part | D |
| Ioyn'd by our equall Art | D |
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| Were it cymented or sowne | E |
| By Shreds or Pieces knowne | E |
| We each might find our owne | E |
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| But 'tis dissolu'd and fix'd | F |
| And with such cunning mix'd | F |
| No diffrence that betwixt | F |
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| But how shall we agree | G |
| By whom it kept shall be | G |
| Whether by you or me | G |
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| It cannot two Brests fill | H |
| One must be heartlesse still | H |
| Vntill the other will | H |
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| It came to me one day | I |
| When I will'd it to say | I |
| With whether it would stay | I |
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| It told me in your Brest | J |
| Where it might hope to rest | J |
| For if it were my Ghest | J |
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| For certainety it knew | E |
| That I would still anew | E |
| Be sending it to you | E |
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| Neuer I thinke had two | E |
| Such worke so much to doo | E |
| A Vnitie to woo | E |
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| Yours was so cold and chaste | J |
| Whilst mine with zeale did waste | J |
| Like Fire with Water plac'd | J |
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| How did my Heart intreat | J |
| How pant how did it beat | J |
| Till it could giue yours heat | J |
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| Till to that temper brought | J |
| Through our perfection wrought | J |
| That blessing eythers Thought | J |
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| In such a Height it lyes | I |
| From this base Worlds dull Eyes | I |
| That Heauen it not enuyes | I |
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| All that this Earth can show | A |
| Our Heart shall not once know | A |
| For it too vile and low | A |
Michael Drayton
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