Devotion I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC CCCC CBBC EFFEFOLLOW thy fair sun unhappy shadow | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Though thou be black as night | B |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And she made all of light | B |
Yet follow thy fair sun unhappy shadow | A |
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Follow her whose light thy light depriveth | C |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Though here thou liv'st disgraced | D |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And she in heaven is placed | D |
Yet follow her whose light the world reviveth | C |
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Follow those pure beams whose beauty burneth | C |
nbsp nbsp nbsp That so have scorched thee | C |
nbsp nbsp nbsp As thou still black must be | C |
Till her kind beams thy black so brightness turneth | C |
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Follow her while yet her glory shineth | C |
nbsp nbsp nbsp There comes a luckless night | B |
nbsp nbsp nbsp That will dim all her light | B |
And this the black unhappy shade divineth | C |
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Follow still since so thy fates ordained | E |
nbsp nbsp nbsp The sun must have his shade | F |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Till both at once do fade | F |
The sun still proud the shadow still disdained | E |
Thomas Campion
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