When, Dearest, I But Think Of Thee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDB BBAEEA FGHBBH BBIBBI| When dearest I but think of thee | A |
| Methinks all things that lovely be | A |
| Are present and my soul delighted | B |
| For beauties that from worth arise | C |
| Are like the grace of deities | D |
| Still present with us tho' unsighted | B |
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| Thus while I sit and sigh the day | B |
| With all his borrow'd lights away | B |
| Till night's black wings do overtake me | A |
| Thinking on thee thy beauties then | E |
| As sudden lights do sleepy men | E |
| So they by their bright rays awake me | A |
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| Thus absence dies and dying proves | F |
| No absence can subsist with loves | G |
| That do partake of fair perfection | H |
| Since in the darkest night they may | B |
| By love's quick motion find a way | B |
| To see each other by reflection | H |
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| The waving sea can with each flood | B |
| Bathe some high promont that hath stood | B |
| Far from the main up in the river | I |
| O think not then but love can do | B |
| As much for that 's an ocean too | B |
| Which flows not every day but ever | I |
Sir John Suckling
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