A Song: When June Is Past, The Fading Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGG HHDI JJKK| Ask me no more where Jove bestows | A |
| When June is past the fading rose | A |
| For in your beauty's orient deep | B |
| These flowers as in their causes sleep | B |
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| Ask me no more whither doth stray | C |
| The golden atoms of the day | C |
| For in pure love heaven did prepare | D |
| Those powders to enrich your hair | D |
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| Ask me no more whither doth haste | E |
| The nightingale when May is past | F |
| For in your sweet dividing throat | G |
| She winters and keeps warm her note | G |
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| Ask me no more where those stars light | H |
| That downwards fall in dead of night | H |
| For in your eyes they sit and there | D |
| Fixed become as in their sphere | I |
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| Ask me no more if east or west | J |
| The ph nix builds her spicy nest | J |
| For unto you at last she flies | K |
| And in your fragrant bosom dies | K |
Thomas Carew
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