A Supplication Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCC DEEDFFF GHHGIIJ ABBAFFF| Awake awake my Lyre | A |
| And tell thy silent master's humble tale | B |
| In sounds that may prevail | B |
| Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire | A |
| Though so exalted she | C |
| And I so lowly be | C |
| Tell her such different notes make all thy harmony | C |
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| Hark how the strings awake | D |
| And though the moving hand approach not near | E |
| Themselves with awful fear | E |
| A kind of numerous trembling make | D |
| Now all thy forces try | F |
| Now all thy charms apply | F |
| Revenge upon her ear the conquests of her eye | F |
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| Weak Lyre thy virtue sure | G |
| Is useless here since thou art only found | H |
| To cure but not to wound | H |
| And she to wound but not to cure | G |
| Too weak too wilt thou prove | I |
| My passion to remove | I |
| Physic to other ills thou'rt nourishment to love | J |
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| Sleep sleep again my Lyre | A |
| For thou canst never tell my humble tale | B |
| In sounds that will prevail | B |
| Nor gentle thoughts in her inspire | A |
| All thy vain mirth lay by | F |
| Bid thy strings silent lie | F |
| Sleep sleep again my Lyre and let thy master die | F |
Abraham Cowley
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