To A Mistress Dying Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEBE FGFG| Lover Your beauty ripe and calm and fresh | A |
| As eastern summers are | B |
| Must now forsaking time and flesh | A |
| Add light to some small star | B |
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| Philosopher Whilst she yet lives were stars decay'd | C |
| Their light by hers relief might find | D |
| But Death will lead her to a shade | C |
| Where Love is cold and Beauty blind | D |
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| Lover Lovers whose priests all poets are | B |
| Think every mistress when she dies | E |
| Is changed at least into a star | B |
| And who dares doubt the poets wise | E |
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| Philosopher But ask not bodies doom'd to die | F |
| To what abode they go | G |
| Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy | F |
| It is not safe to know | G |
Sir William Davenant
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