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 HIC2IC2| Courage 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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