Not Fair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFCCGGHHIIJK LLBACCML| 'T IS very true I thought you once as fair | A |
| As women in th' idea are | B |
| Whatever here seems beauteous seem'd to be | C |
| But a faint metaphor of thee | C |
| But then methoughts there something shin'd within | D |
| Which casts this lustre o'er thy skin | D |
| Nor could I choose but count it the sun's light | E |
| Which made this cloud appear so bright | E |
| But since I knew thy falsehood and thy pride | F |
| And all thy thousand faults beside | F |
| A very Moor methinks plac'd near to thee | C |
| White as his teeth would seem to be | C |
| So men they say by hell's delusions led | G |
| Have ta'en a succubus to their bed | G |
| Believe it fair and themselves happy call | H |
| Till the cleft foot discovers all | H |
| Then they start from 't half ghosts themselves with fear | I |
| And devil as 't is doth appear | I |
| So since against my will I found thee foul | J |
| Deform'd and crooked in thy soul | K |
| My reason straight did to my senses shew | L |
| That they might be mistaken too | L |
| Nay when the world but knows how false you are | B |
| There's not a man will think you fair | A |
| Thy shape will monstrous in their fancies be | C |
| They'll call their eyes as false as thee | C |
| Be what thou wilt hate will present thee so | M |
| As Puritans do the Pope and Papists Luther do | L |
Abraham Cowley
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