love
The first and the final lines of every stanza ends in "love"
love
The first and the final lines of every stanza ends in "love"
Rhyme scheme of The Canonization is A B B A C C C A A, and it's persistent throughout every stanza.
The first stanza, for example, follows A B B A C C C A A rhyme scheme with the each alphabet representing a rhyme as below:
A: -ove
B: -out
C: -ace
To modern readers, the terminal sound of "love" and, "improve" (or "approve") doesn't seem to rhyme. However,"-ove" during John Donne's time period was pronounced slightly different from modern pronunciation. It was more similar to pronunciation of "-oave," which allowed them to rhyme!