The Suspicion Upon His Over-much Familiarity With A Gentlewoman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBCCDEFFCCGGHHIHJ KJJLLMMNNMMOPHHH| And must we part because some say | A |
| Loud is our love and loose our play | A |
| And more than well becomes the day | A |
| Alas for pity and for us | B |
| Most innocent and injured thus | B |
| Had we kept close or played within | C |
| Suspicion now had been the sin | C |
| And shame had followed long ere this | D |
| T' have plagued what now unpunished is | E |
| But we as fearless of the sun | F |
| As faultless will not wish undone | F |
| What now is done since where no sin | C |
| Unbolts the door no shame comes in | C |
| Then comely and most fragrant maid | G |
| Be you more wary than afraid | G |
| Of these reports because you see | H |
| The fairest most suspected be | H |
| The common forms have no one eye | I |
| Or ear of burning jealousy | H |
| To follow them but chiefly where | J |
| Love makes the cheek and chin a sphere | K |
| To dance and play in trust me there | J |
| Suspicion questions every hair | J |
| Come you are fair and should be seen | L |
| While you are in your sprightful green | L |
| And what though you had been embraced | M |
| By me were you for that unchaste | M |
| No no no more than is yond' moon | N |
| Which shining in her perfect noon | N |
| In all that great and glorious light | M |
| Continues cold as is the night | M |
| Then beauteous maid you may retire | O |
| And as for me my chaste desire | P |
| Shall move towards you although I see | H |
| Your face no more So live you free | H |
| From fame's black lips as you from me | H |
Robert Herrick
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