To An Inconstant One Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEE DDDDFFDD GHGHIIEE JKJLGGAA| I loved thee once I'll love no more | A |
| Thine be the grief as is the blame | B |
| Thou art not what thou wast before | A |
| What reason I should be the same | B |
| He that can love unloved again | C |
| Hath better store of love than brain | D |
| God send me love my debts to pay | E |
| While unthrifts fool their love away | E |
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| Nothing could have my love o'erthrown | D |
| If thou hadst still continued mine | D |
| Yea if thou hadst remain'd thy own | D |
| I might perchance have yet been thine | D |
| But thou thy freedom didst recall | F |
| That it thou might elsewhere enthral | F |
| And then how could I but disdain | D |
| A captive's captive to remain | D |
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| When new desires had conquer'd thee | G |
| And changed the object of thy will | H |
| It had been lethargy in me | G |
| Not constancy to love thee still | H |
| Yea it had been a sin to go | I |
| And prostitute affection so | I |
| Since we are taught no prayers to say | E |
| To such as must to others pray | E |
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| Yet do thou glory in thy choice | J |
| Thy choice of his good fortune boast | K |
| I'll neither grieve nor yet rejoice | J |
| To see him gain what I have lost | L |
| The height of my disdain shall be | G |
| To laugh at him to blush for thee | G |
| To love thee still but go no more | A |
| A begging at a beggar's door | A |
Sir Robert Ayton
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