Twin-growth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJHKKH| I would not wish thee other than thou art | A |
| I love thee love so well in every part | A |
| That had I power to change thee | B |
| In form or face or mind | C |
| I could not find | C |
| The heart to re arrange thee | B |
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| For we were made to suit each other sweet | D |
| Apart uneven but when join'd complete | D |
| With powers and failings matching | E |
| In each as strictly well | F |
| As in some shell | F |
| The sharp teeth interlatching | E |
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| And so I would not have thee change for fear | G |
| The valves might ope and gape a little dear | G |
| But we are like the weather | H |
| A changing every day | I |
| And so I pray | I |
| That we may change together | H |
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| Change like twin shells that nothing can estrange | J |
| But ever changing never feel a change | J |
| So grow for one another | H |
| That each may aye present | K |
| The complement | K |
| That doth fulfil the other | H |
William Cosmo Monkhouse
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