Not To Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHIIJJ| He that will not love must be | A |
| My scholar and learn this of me | A |
| There be in love as many fears | B |
| As the summer's corn has ears | B |
| Sighs and sobs and sorrows more | C |
| Than the sand that makes the shore | C |
| Freezing cold and fiery heats | D |
| Fainting swoons and deadly sweats | E |
| Now an ague then a fever | F |
| Both tormenting lovers ever | F |
| Would'st thou know besides all these | G |
| How hard a woman 'tis to please | G |
| How cross how sullen and how soon | H |
| She shifts and changes like the moon | H |
| How false how hollow she's in heart | I |
| And how she is her own least part | I |
| How high she's priz'd and worth but small | J |
| Little thou'lt love or not at all | J |
Robert Herrick
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