The Tear Sent To Her From Staines. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDCDDC EEFDDF GGCDDC HHDIID CCJKLE| Glide gentle streams and bear | A |
| Along with you my tear | A |
| To that coy girl | B |
| Who smiles yet slays | C |
| Me with delays | C |
| And strings my tears as pearl | B |
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| See see she's yonder set | D |
| Making a carcanet | D |
| Of maiden flowers | C |
| There there present | D |
| This orient | D |
| And pendant pearl of ours | C |
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| Then say I've sent one more | E |
| Gem to enrich her store | E |
| And that is all | F |
| Which I can send | D |
| Or vainly spend | D |
| For tears no more will fall | F |
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| Nor will I seek supply | G |
| Of them the spring's once dry | G |
| But I'll devise | C |
| Among the rest | D |
| A way that's best | D |
| How I may save mine eyes | C |
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| Yet say should she condemn | H |
| Me to surrender them | H |
| Then say my part | D |
| Must be to weep | I |
| Out them to keep | I |
| A poor yet loving heart | D |
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| Say too she would have this | C |
| She shall then my hope is | C |
| That when I'm poor | J |
| And nothing have | K |
| To send or save | L |
| I'm sure she'll ask no more | E |
Robert Herrick
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