The Smokes Of Melancholy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDD EEFF A GGHHHIIJJ A KKLLL AAMM| I | A |
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| Who hath e'er felt the change of love | B |
| And known those pangs that losers prove | C |
| May paint my face without seeing me | D |
| And write the state how my fancies be | D |
| The loathsome buds grown on Sorrow's tree | D |
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| But who by hearsay speaks and hath not fully felt | E |
| What kind of fires they be in which those spirits melt | E |
| Shall guess and fail what doth displease | F |
| Feeling my pulse miss my disease | F |
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| II | A |
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| O no O no trial only shows | G |
| The bitter juice of forsaken woes | G |
| Where former bliss present evils do stain | H |
| Nay former bliss adds to present pain | H |
| While remembrance doth both states contain | H |
| Come learners then to me the model of mishap | I |
| Ingulphed in despair slid down from Fortune's lap | I |
| And as you like my double lot | J |
| Tread in my steps or follow not | J |
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| III | A |
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| For me alas I am full resolved | K |
| Those bands alas shall not be dissolved | K |
| Nor break my word though reward come late | L |
| Nor fail my faith in my failing fate | L |
| Nor change in change though change change my state | L |
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| But always own myself with eagle eyed Truth to fly | A |
| Up to the sun although the sun my wings do fry | A |
| For if those flames burn my desire | M |
| Yet shall I die in Phoenix' fire | M |
Sir Philip Sidney
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