The Symptoms Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BCB DED FGG HHI JJJ| Would my Delia know if I love let her take | A |
| My last thought at night and the first when I wake | A |
| With my prayers and best wishes preferred for her sake | A |
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| Let her guess what I muse on when rambling alone | B |
| I stride o'er the stubble each day with my gun | C |
| Never ready to shoot till the covey is flown | B |
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| Let her think what odd whimsies I have in my brain | D |
| When I read one page over and over again | E |
| And discover at last that I read it in vain | D |
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| Let her say why so fixed and so steady my look | F |
| Without ever regarding the person who spoke | G |
| Still affecting to laugh without hearing the joke | G |
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| Or why when the pleasure her praises I hear | H |
| That sweetest of melody sure to my ear | H |
| I attend and at once inattentive appear | I |
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| And lastly when summoned to drink to my flame | J |
| Let her guess why I never once mention her name | J |
| Though herself and the woman I love are the same | J |
William Cowper
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