I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE CFGF GHIH JBAB| I prithee send me back my heart | A |
| Since I cannot have thine | B |
| For if from yours you will not part | A |
| Why then shouldst thou have mine | B |
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| Yet now I think on't let it lie | C |
| To find it were in vain | D |
| For thou hast a thief in either eye | C |
| Would steal it back again | E |
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| Why should two hearts in one breast lie | C |
| And yet not lodge together | F |
| O Love where is thy sympathy | G |
| If thus our breasts thou sever | F |
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| But love is such a mystery | G |
| I cannot find it out | H |
| For when I think I'm best resolved | I |
| I then am in most doubt | H |
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| Then farewell care and farewell woe | J |
| I will no longer pine | B |
| For I'll believe I have her heart | A |
| As much as she hath mine | B |
Sir John Suckling
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