To Groves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKLL MMMNNOOMM| Ye silent shades whose each tree here | A |
| Some relique of a saint doth wear | B |
| Who for some sweet heart's sake did prove | C |
| The fire and martyrdom of Love | D |
| Here is the legend of those saints | E |
| That died for love and their complaints | E |
| Their wounded hearts and names we find | F |
| Encarved upon the leaves and rind | F |
| Give way give way to me who come | G |
| Scorch'd with the self same martyrdom | G |
| And have deserved as much Love knows | H |
| As to be canonized 'mongst those | H |
| Whose deeds and deaths here written are | I |
| Within your Greeny kalendar | I |
| By all those virgins' fillets hung | J |
| Upon your boughs and requiems sung | J |
| For saints and souls departed hence | K |
| Here honour'd still with frankincense | K |
| By all those tears that have been shed | L |
| As a drink offering to the dead | L |
| By all those true love knots that be | M |
| With mottoes carved on every tree | M |
| By sweet Saint Phillis pity me | M |
| By dear Saint Iphis and the rest | N |
| Of all those other saints now blest | N |
| Me me forsaken here admit | O |
| Among your myrtles to be writ | O |
| That my poor name may have the glory | M |
| To live remember'd in your story | M |
Robert Herrick
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