Lips Tongueless Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEFGHIIJJKK| For my part I never care | A |
| For those lips that tongue tied are | B |
| Tell tales I would have them be | C |
| Of my mistress and of me | C |
| Let them prattle how that I | D |
| Sometimes freeze and sometimes fry | D |
| Let them tell how she doth move | E |
| Fore or backward in her love | F |
| Let them speak by gentle tones | G |
| One and th' other's passions | H |
| How we watch and seldom sleep | I |
| How by willows we do weep | I |
| How by stealth we meet and then | J |
| Kiss and sigh so part again | J |
| This the lips we will permit | K |
| For to tell not publish it | K |
Robert Herrick
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