On A Friends Absence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDDD DDEEEEEF DDGGHHHH| Come come I faint thy heavy stay | A |
| Doubles each houre of the day | A |
| The winged hast of nimble love | B |
| Makes aged Time not seeme to move | C |
| Did not the light | D |
| And then the night | D |
| Instruct my sight | D |
| I should believe the Sunne forgot his flight | D |
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| Show not the drooping marygold | D |
| Whose leaves like grieving amber fold | D |
| My longing nothing can explain | E |
| But soule and body rent in twain | E |
| Did I not moane | E |
| And sigh and groane | E |
| And talk alone | E |
| I should believe my soul was gone from home | F |
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| She's gone she's gone away she's fled | D |
| Within my breast to make her bed | D |
| In me there dwels her tenant woe | G |
| And sighs are all the breath I blow | G |
| Then come to me | H |
| One touch of thee | H |
| Will make me see | H |
| If loving thee I live or dead I be | H |
William Strode
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