Benedetta Ramus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDEFFFE GGGFHHHF IIIJKKKJ LLLMAAAM NOOKPPPK| Mysterious Benedetta who | A |
| That Reynolds or that Romney drew | A |
| Was ever half so fair as you | A |
| Or is so well forgot | B |
| These eyes of melancholy brown | C |
| These woven locks a shadowy crown | C |
| Must surely have bewitched the town | C |
| Yet you're remembered not | B |
| - | |
| Through all that prattle of your age | D |
| Through lore of fribble and of sage | D |
| I've read and chiefly Walpole's page | D |
| Wherein are beauties famous | E |
| I've haunted ball and rout and sale | F |
| I've heard of Devonshire and Thrale | F |
| And all the Gunnings' wondrous tale | F |
| But nothing of Miss Ramus | E |
| - | |
| And yet on many a lattice pane | G |
| 'Fair Benedetta ' scrawled in vain | G |
| By lovers' diamonds must remain | G |
| To tell us you were cruel | F |
| But who of all that sighed and swore | H |
| Wits poets courtiers by the score | H |
| Did win and on his bosom wore | H |
| This hard and lovely jewel | F |
| - | |
| Why dilettante records say | I |
| An Alderman who came that way | I |
| Woo'd you and made you Lady Day | I |
| You crowned his civic flame | J |
| It suits a melancholy song | K |
| To think your heart had suffered wrong | K |
| And that you lived not very long | K |
| To be a City dame | J |
| - | |
| Perchance you were a Mourning Bride | L |
| And conscious of a heart that died | L |
| With one who fell by Rodney's side | L |
| In blood stained Spanish bays | M |
| Perchance 'twas no such thing and you | A |
| Dwelt happy with your knight and true | A |
| And like Aurora watched a crew | A |
| Of rosy little Days | M |
| - | |
| Oh lovely face and innocent | N |
| Whatever way your fortunes went | O |
| And if to earth your life was lent | O |
| For little space or long | K |
| In your kind eyes we seem to see | P |
| What Woman at her best may be | P |
| And offer to your memory | P |
| An unavailing song | K |
Andrew Lang
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