Love In The Guise Of Friendship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF GHGI JKJK| Talk not of love it gives me pain | A |
| For love has been my foe | B |
| He bound me in an iron chain | A |
| And plung'd me deep in woe | B |
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| But friendship's pure and lasting joys | C |
| My heart was form'd to prove | D |
| There welcome win and wear the prize | E |
| But never talk of love | F |
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| Your friendship much can make me blest | G |
| O why that bliss destroy | H |
| Why urge the only one request | G |
| You know I will deny | I |
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| Your thought if Love must harbour there | J |
| Conceal it in that thought | K |
| Nor cause me from my bosom tear | J |
| The very friend I sought | K |
Robert Burns
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