The Match Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FCFC GHGI JKJK KKKK KLKL MKMK KNKN KOKB| Nature had long a Treasure made | A |
| Of all her choisest store | B |
| Fearing when She should be decay'd | A |
| To beg in vain for more | B |
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| Her Orientest Colours there | C |
| And Essences most pure | D |
| With sweetest Perfumes hoarded were | E |
| All as she thought secure | D |
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| She seldom them unlock'd or us'd | F |
| But with the nicest care | C |
| For with one grain of them diffus'd | F |
| She could the World repair | C |
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| But likeness soon together drew | G |
| What she did separate lay | H |
| Of which one perfect Beauty grew | G |
| And that was Celia | I |
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| Love wisely had of long fore seen | J |
| That he must once grow old | K |
| And therefore stor'd a Magazine | J |
| To save him from the cold | K |
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| He kept the several Cells repleat | K |
| With Nitre thrice refin'd | K |
| The Naphta's and the Sulphurs heat | K |
| And all that burns the Mind | K |
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| He fortifi'd the double Gate | K |
| And rarely thither came | L |
| For with one Spark of these he streight | K |
| All Nature could inflame | L |
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| Till by vicinity so long | M |
| A nearer Way they sought | K |
| And grown magnetically strong | M |
| Into each other wrought | K |
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| Thus all his fewel did unite | K |
| To make one fire high | N |
| None ever burn'd so hot so bright | K |
| And Celia that am I | N |
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| So we alone the happy rest | K |
| Whilst all the World is poor | O |
| And have within our Selves possest | K |
| All Love's and Nature's store | B |
Andrew Marvell
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