The Gallery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE FFFFGHIJ KKFFLLFF MNOOJJPP QQBBFFAA RRSSCCIT UUVVJJWW| Clora come view my Soul and tell | A |
| Whether I have contriv'd it well | A |
| Now all its several lodgings lye | B |
| Compos'd into one Gallery | C |
| And the great Arras hangings made | D |
| Of various Faces by are laid | D |
| That for all furniture you'l find | E |
| Only your Picture in my Mind | E |
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| Here Thou art painted in the Dress | F |
| Of an Inhumane Murtheress | F |
| Examining upon our Hearts | F |
| Thy fertile Shop of cruel Arts | F |
| Engines more keen than ever yet | G |
| Adorned Tyrants Cabinet | H |
| Of which the most tormenting are | I |
| Black Eyes red Lips and curled Hair | J |
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| But on the other side th' art drawn | K |
| Like to Aurora in the Dawn | K |
| When in the East she slumb'ring lyes | F |
| And stretches out her milky Thighs | F |
| While all the morning Quire does sing | L |
| And Mamma falls and Roses spring | L |
| And at thy Feet the wooing Doves | F |
| Sit perfecting their harmless Loves | F |
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| Like an Enchantress here thou show'st | M |
| Vexing thy restless Lover's Ghost | N |
| And by a Light obscure dost rave | O |
| Over his Entrails in the Cave | O |
| Divining thence with horrid Care | J |
| How long thou shalt continue fair | J |
| And when inform'd them throw'st away | P |
| To be the greedy Vultur's prey | P |
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| But against that thou sit'st a float | Q |
| Like Venus in her pearly Boat | Q |
| The Halcyons calming all that's nigh | B |
| Betwixt the Air and Water fly | B |
| Or if some rowling Wave appears | F |
| A Mass of Ambergris it bears | F |
| Nor blows more Wind than what may well | A |
| Convoy the Perfume to the Smell | A |
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| These Pictures and a thousand more | R |
| Of Thee my Gallery dost store | R |
| In all the Forms thou can'st invent | S |
| Either to please me or torment | S |
| For thou alone to people me | C |
| Art grown a num'rous Colony | C |
| And a Collection choicer far | I |
| Then or White hall's or Mantua's were | T |
| - | |
| But of these Pictures and the rest | U |
| That at the Entrance likes me best | U |
| Where the same Posture and the Look | V |
| Remains with which I first was took | V |
| A tender Shepherdess whose Hair | J |
| Hangs loosely playing in the Air | J |
| Transplanting Flow'rs from the green Hill | W |
| To crown her Head and Bosome fill | W |
Andrew Marvell
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