Eyes And Tears Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGG GGGG HIGG EEGG GGJJ GGKK LMNO PPGG QNCC GGRR SSTT GGGG UGGGG| How wisely Nature did decree | A |
| With the same Eyes to weep and see | A |
| That having view'd the object vain | B |
| They might be ready to complain | B |
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| And since the Self deluding Sight | C |
| In a false Angle takes each hight | C |
| These Tears which better measure all | D |
| Like wat'ry Lines and Plummets fall | D |
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| Two Tears which Sorrow long did weigh | E |
| Within the Scales of either Eye | F |
| And then paid out in equal Poise | G |
| Are the true price of all my Joyes | G |
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| What in the World most fair appears | G |
| Yea even Laughter turns to Tears | G |
| And all the Jewels which we prize | G |
| Melt in these Pendants of the Eyes | G |
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| I have through every Garden been | H |
| Amongst the Red the White the Green | I |
| And yet from all the flow'rs I saw | G |
| No Hony but these Tears could draw | G |
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| So the all seeing Sun each day | E |
| Distills the World with Chymick Ray | E |
| But finds the Essence only Showers | G |
| Which straight in pity back he powers | G |
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| Yet happy they whom Grief doth bless | G |
| That weep the more and see the less | G |
| And to preserve their Sight more true | J |
| Bath still their Eyes in their own Dew | J |
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| So Magdalen in Tears more wise | G |
| Dissolv'd those captivating Eyes | G |
| Whose liquid Chains could flowing meet | K |
| To fetter her Redeemers feet | K |
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| Not full sailes hasting loaden home | L |
| Nor the chast Ladies pregnant Womb | M |
| Nor Cynthia Teeming show's so fair | N |
| As two Eyes swoln with weeping are | O |
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| The sparkling Glance that shoots Desire | P |
| Drench'd in these Waves does lose it fire | P |
| Yea oft the Thund'rer pitty takes | G |
| And here the hissing Lightning slakes | G |
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| The Incense was to Heaven dear | Q |
| Not as a Perfume but a Tear | N |
| And Stars shew lovely in the Night | C |
| But as they seem the Tears of Light | C |
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| Ope then mine Eyes your double Sluice | G |
| And practise so your noblest Use | G |
| For others too can see or sleep | R |
| But only humane Eyes can weep | R |
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| Now like two Clouds dissolving drop | S |
| And at each Tear in distance stop | S |
| Now like two Fountains trickle down | T |
| Now like two floods o'return and drown | T |
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| Thus let your Streams o'reflow your Springs | G |
| Till Eyes and Tears be the same things | G |
| And each the other's difference bears | G |
| These weeping Eyes those seeing Tears | G |
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| Note | U |
| Magdala lascivos sic quum dimisit Amantes | G |
| Fervidaque in castas lumina solvit aquas | G |
| Haesit in irriguo lachrymarum compede Christus | G |
| Et tenuit sacros uda Catena pedes | G |
Andrew Marvell
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