Against Fruition Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGDDHHFFDD IIJJKKHHLMNN| No thou'rt a fool I'll swear if e'er thou grant | A |
| Much of my veneration thou must want | B |
| When once thy kindness puts my ignorance out | C |
| For a learn'd age is always least devout | C |
| Keep still thy distance for at once to me | D |
| Goddess and woman too thou canst not be | D |
| Thou'rt queen of all that sees thee and as such | E |
| Must neither tyrannize nor yield too much | E |
| Such freedom give as may admit command | F |
| But keep the forts and magazines in thine hand | F |
| Thou'rt yet a whole world to me and dost fill | G |
| My large ambition but 'tis dang'rous still | G |
| Lest I like the Pell an prince should be | D |
| And weep for other worlds having conquered thee | D |
| When Love has taken all thou hast away | H |
| His strength by too much riches will decay | H |
| Thou in my fancy dost much higher stand | F |
| Than women can be placed by Nature's hand | F |
| And I must needs I'm sure a loser be | D |
| To change thee as thou'rt there for very thee | D |
| Thy sweetness is so much within me placed | I |
| That shouldst thou nectar give 'twould spoil the taste | I |
| Beauty at first moves wonder and delight | J |
| 'Tis Nature's juggling trick to cheat the sight | J |
| We admire it whilst unknown but after more | K |
| Admire ourselves for liking it before | K |
| Love like a greedy hawk if we give way | H |
| Does overgorge himself with his own prey | H |
| Of very hopes a surfeit he'll sustain | L |
| Unless by fears he cast them up again | M |
| His spirit and sweetness dangers keep alone | N |
| If once he lose his sting he grows a drone | N |
Abraham Cowley
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