To My Lord Colrane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFF GGFFFFHHFFII HHHHJJFFBBKK| In Answer to his Complemental Verses sent me under the Name of CLEANOR | A |
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| Long my dull Muse in heavy slumbers lay | B |
| Indulging Sloth and to soft Ease gave way | B |
| Her Fill of Rest resolving to enjoy | C |
| Or fancying little worthy her employ | C |
| When Noble Cleanors obliging Strains | D |
| Her the neglected Lyre to tune constrains | D |
| Confus'd at first she rais'd her drowsie Head | E |
| Ponder'd a while then pleas'd forsook her Bed | E |
| Survey'd each Line with Fancy richly fraught | F |
| Re read and then revolv'd them in her Thought | F |
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| And can it be she said and can it be | G |
| That 'mong the Great Ones I a Poet see | G |
| The Great Ones who their Ill spent time devide | F |
| 'Twixt dang'rous Politicks and formal Pride | F |
| Destructive Vice expensive Vanity | F |
| In worse Ways yet if Worse there any be | F |
| Leave to Inferiours the despised Arts | H |
| Let their Retainers be the Men of Parts | H |
| But here with Wonder and with Joy I find | F |
| I'th' Noble Born a no less Noble Mind | F |
| One who on Ancestors does not rely | I |
| For Fame in Merit as in Title high | I |
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| The Severe Godess thus approv'd the Laies | H |
| Yet too much pleas'd alas with her own Praise | H |
| But to vain Pride My Muse cease to give place | H |
| Virgils immortal Numbers once did grace | H |
| A Smother'd Gnat by high Applause is shown | J |
| If undeserv'd the Praisers worth alone | J |
| Nor that you should believ'r is't always meant | F |
| 'Tis often for Instruction only sent | F |
| To praise men to Amendment and display | B |
| By its Perfection where their Weakness lay | B |
| This Use of these Applauding Numbers make | K |
| Them for Example not Encomium take | K |
Anne Killigrew
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