Hymn To Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDBEEB BBFGGF HHBIIB| I will confess | A |
| With cheerfulness | A |
| Love is a thing so likes me | B |
| That let her lay | C |
| On me all day | C |
| I'll kiss the hand that strikes me | B |
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| I will not I | D |
| Now blubb'ring cry | D |
| It ah too late repents me | B |
| That I did fall | E |
| To love at all | E |
| Since love so much contents me | B |
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| No no I'll be | B |
| In fetters free | B |
| While others they sit wringing | F |
| Their hands for pain | G |
| I'll entertain | G |
| The wounds of love with singing | F |
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| With flowers and wine | H |
| And cakes divine | H |
| To strike me I will tempt thee | B |
| Which done no more | I |
| I'll come before | I |
| Thee and thine altars empty | B |
Robert Herrick
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