My Sweetest Lesbia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABB CCAABB DDEFBB| My sweetest Lesbia let us live and love | A |
| And though the sager sort our deeds reprove | A |
| Let us not weigh them Heaven's great lamps do dive | A |
| Into their west and straight again revive | A |
| But soon as once set is our little light | B |
| Then must we sleep one ever during night | B |
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| If all would lead their lives in love like me | C |
| Then bloody swords and armor should not be | C |
| No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move | A |
| Unless alarm came from the camp of love | A |
| But fools do live and waste their little light | B |
| And seek with pain their ever during night | B |
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| When timely death my life and fortune ends | D |
| Let not my hearse be vexed with mourning friends | D |
| But let all lovers rich in triumph come | E |
| And with sweet pastimes grace my happy tomb | F |
| And Lesbia close up thou my little light | B |
| And crown with love my ever during night | B |
Thomas Campion
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