Song Xi. - Perhaps It Is Not Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFG HHII| Perhaps it is not love said I | A |
| That melts my soul when Flavia's nigh | A |
| Where wit and sense like hers agree | B |
| One may be pleased and yet be free | B |
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| The beauties of her polish'd mind | C |
| It needs no lover's eye to find | C |
| The hermit freezing in his cell | D |
| Might wish the gentle Flavia well | D |
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| It is not love averse to bear | E |
| The servile chain that lovers wear | E |
| Let let me all my fears remove | F |
| My doubts dispel it is not love | G |
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| Oh when did wit so brightly shine | H |
| In any form less fair than thine | H |
| It is it is love's subtle fire | I |
| And under friendship lurks desire | I |
William Shenstone
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