A Ring Presented To Julia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDB EEFGGH IIJKKJ LMKKKK KKNOPN| Julia I bring | A |
| To thee this ring | A |
| Made for thy finger fit | B |
| To show by this | C |
| That our love is | D |
| Or should be like to it | B |
| - | |
| Close though it be | E |
| The joint is free | E |
| So when love's yoke is on | F |
| It must not gall | G |
| Or fret at all | G |
| With hard oppression | H |
| - | |
| But it must play | I |
| Still either way | I |
| And be too such a yoke | J |
| As not too wide | K |
| To overslide | K |
| Or be so straight to choke | J |
| - | |
| So we who bear | L |
| This beam must rear | M |
| Ourselves to such a height | K |
| As that the stay | K |
| Of either may | K |
| Create the burden light | K |
| - | |
| And as this round | K |
| Is nowhere found | K |
| To flaw or else to sever | N |
| So let our love | O |
| As endless prove | P |
| And pure as gold for ever | N |
Robert Herrick
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