If You Refuse Me Once, And Think Again Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC EEFBBF GGGHIG IHJK LMNN OPGG QQOO RRSS GGGG TTUV GGQF WXGG| If you refuse me once and think again | A |
| I will complain | B |
| You are deceiv'd love is no work of art | C |
| It must be got and born | D |
| Not made and worn | D |
| By every one that hath a heart | C |
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| Or do you think they more than once can die | E |
| Whom you deny | E |
| Who tell you of a thousand deaths a day | F |
| Like the old poets feign | B |
| And tell the pain | B |
| They met but in the common way | F |
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| Or do you think 't too soon to yield | G |
| And quit the field | G |
| Nor is that right they yield that first entreat | G |
| Once one may crave for love | H |
| But more would prove | I |
| This heart too little that too great | G |
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| Oh that I were all soul that I might prove | I |
| For you as fit a love | H |
| As you are for an angel for I know | J |
| None but pure spirits are fit loves for you | K |
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| You are all ethereal there's in you no dross | L |
| Nor any part that's gross | M |
| Your coarsest part is like a curious lawn | N |
| The vestal relics for a covering drawn | N |
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| Your other parts part of the purest fire | O |
| That e'er Heav'n did inspire | P |
| Makes every thought that is refin'd by it | G |
| A quintessence of goodness and of wit | G |
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| Thus have your raptures reach'd to that degree | Q |
| In love's philosophy | Q |
| That you can figure to yourself a fire | O |
| Void of all heat a love without desire | O |
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| Nor in divinity do you go less | R |
| You think and you profess | R |
| That souls may have a plenitude of joy | S |
| Although their bodies meet not to employ | S |
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| But I must needs confess I do not find | G |
| The motions of my mind | G |
| So purified as yet but at the best | G |
| My body claims in them an interest | G |
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| I hold that perfect joy makes all our parts | T |
| As joyful as our hearts | T |
| Our senses tell us if we please not them | U |
| Our love is but a dotage or a dream | V |
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| How shall we then agree you may descend | G |
| But will not to my end | G |
| I fain would tune my fancy to your key | Q |
| But cannot reach to that obstructed way | F |
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| There rests but this that whilst we sorrow here | W |
| Our bodies may draw near | X |
| And when no more their joys they can extend | G |
| Then let our souls begin where they did end | G |
Sir John Suckling
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