A Dialogue, Between The Resolved Soul, And Created Pleasure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FGCGCHH IJJ FKKLL IMM FNNOO IPP FKKHH IQQ FHHRR IHHSS HBHHBTT FUDUD IVV FOKOK IWW FXYZY IA2A2 FHB2HB2 IVV HIC2IC2Courage my Soul now learn to wield | A |
The weight of thine immortal Shield | A |
Close on thy Head thy Helmet bright | B |
Ballance thy Sword against the Fight | B |
See where an Army strong as fair | C |
With silken Banners spreads the air | C |
Now if thou bee'st that thing Divine | D |
In this day's Combat let it shine | D |
And shew that Nature wants an Art | E |
To conquer one resolved Heart | E |
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Pleasure | F |
Welcome the Creations Guest | G |
Lord of Earth and Heavens Heir | C |
Lay aside that Warlike Crest | G |
And of Nature's banquet share | C |
Where the Souls of fruits and flow'rs | H |
Stand prepar'd to heighten yours | H |
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Soul | I |
I sup above and cannot stay | J |
To bait so long upon the way | J |
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Pleasure | F |
On these downy Pillows lye | K |
Whose soft Plumes will thither fly | K |
On these Roses strow'd so plain | L |
Lest one Leaf thy Side should strain | L |
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Soul | I |
My gentler Rest is on a Thought | M |
Conscious of doing what I ought | M |
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Pleasure | F |
If thou bee'st with Perfumes pleas'd | N |
Such as oft the Gods appeas'd | N |
Thou in fragrant Clouds shalt show | O |
Like another God below | O |
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Soul | I |
A Soul that knowes not to presume | P |
Is Heaven's and its own perfume | P |
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Pleasure | F |
Every thing does seem to vie | K |
Which should first attract thine Eye | K |
But since none deserves that grace | H |
In this Crystal view thy face | H |
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Soul | I |
When the Creator's skill is priz'd | Q |
The rest is all but Earth disguis'd | Q |
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Pleasure | F |
Heark how Musick then prepares | H |
For thy Stay these charming Aires | H |
Which the posting Winds recall | R |
And suspend the Rivers Fall | R |
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Soul | I |
Had I but any time to lose | H |
On this I would it all dispose | H |
Cease Tempter None can chain a mind | S |
Whom this sweet Chordage cannot bind | S |
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Chorus | H |
Earth cannot shew so brave a Sight | B |
As when a single Soul does fence | H |
The Batteries of alluring Sense | H |
And Heaven views it with delight | B |
Then persevere for still new Charges sound | T |
And if thou overcom'st thou shalt be crown'd | T |
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Pleasure | F |
All this fair and cost and sweet | U |
Which scatteringly doth shine | D |
Shall within one Beauty meet | U |
And she be only thine | D |
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Soul | I |
If things of Sight such Heavens be | V |
What Heavens are those we cannot see | V |
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Pleasure | F |
Where so e're thy Foot shall go | O |
The minted Gold shall lie | K |
Till thou purchase all below | O |
And want new Worlds to buy | K |
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Soul | I |
Wer't not a price who 'ld value Gold | W |
And that's worth nought that can be sold | W |
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Pleasure | F |
Wilt thou all the Glory have | X |
That War or Peace commend | Y |
Half the World shall be thy Slave | Z |
The other half thy Friend | Y |
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Soul | I |
What Friends if to my self untrue | A2 |
What Slaves unless I captive you | A2 |
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Pleasure | F |
Thou shalt know each hidden Cause | H |
And see the future Time | B2 |
Try what depth the Centre draws | H |
And then to Heaven climb | B2 |
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Soul | I |
None thither mounts by the degree | V |
Of Knowledge but Humility | V |
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Chorus | H |
Triumph triumph victorious Soul | I |
The World has not one Pleasure more | C2 |
The rest does lie beyond the pole | I |
And is thine everlasting Store | C2 |
Andrew Marvell
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