Follow Thy Fair Sun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC CCCC CBBC EFFE| Follow thy fair sun unhappy shadow | A |
| Though thou be black as night | B |
| 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 |
| Though here thou liv'st disgrac'd | D |
| And she in heaven is plac'd | D |
| Yet follow her whose light the world reviveth | C |
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| Follow those pure beams whose beauty burneth | C |
| That so have scorched thee | C |
| As thou still black must be | C |
| Till her kind beams thy black to brightness turneth | C |
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| Follow her while yet her glory shineth | C |
| There comes a luckless night | B |
| 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 |
| The sun must have his shade | F |
| Till both at once do fade | F |
| The sun still proud the shadow still disdained | E |
Thomas Campion
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