The Changes: To Corinna Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEFGGHHIIJJJJ| Be not proud but now incline | A |
| Your soft ear to discipline | B |
| You have changes in your life | C |
| Sometimes peace and sometimes strife | C |
| You have ebbs of face and flows | D |
| As your health or comes or goes | D |
| You have hopes and doubts and fears | E |
| Numberless as are your hairs | F |
| You have pulses that do beat | G |
| High and passions less of heat | G |
| You are young but must be old | H |
| And to these ye must be told | H |
| Time ere long will come and plow | I |
| Loathed furrows in your brow | I |
| And the dimness of your eye | J |
| Will no other thing imply | J |
| But you must die | J |
| As well as I | J |
Robert Herrick
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