Upon A Little Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AABBCCDDEEFGHH ICICCJJCC KKLLICCCCCCC MMCC NIOPPCC QQHH HHRR CCCCRR CCSSCCCCCRRHHCC SSRRRR RSSCCCCRRCCJJRRCCRC SSHHRR KTTHHRR PO CCUUHHNNCC| Under the Discipline of an Excellent Person | A |
| I | - |
| How comes the Day orecast the Flaming Sun | A |
| Darkn'd at Noon as if his Course were run | A |
| He never rose more proud more glad more gay | B |
| Ne're courted Daphne with a brighter Ray | B |
| And now in Clouds he wraps his Head | C |
| As if not Daphne but himself were dead | C |
| And all the little Winged Troop | D |
| Forbear to sing and sit and droop | D |
| The Flowers do languish on their Beds | E |
| And fading hang their Mourning Heads | E |
| The little Cupids discontented shew | F |
| In Grief and Rage one breaks his Bow | G |
| An other tares his Cheeks and Haire | H |
| A third sits blubring in Despaire | H |
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| Confessing though in Love he be | I |
| A Powerful Dreadful Deitie | C |
| A Child in Wrath can do as much as he | I |
| Whence is this Evil hurl'd | C |
| On all the sweetness of the World | C |
| Among those Things with Beauty shine | J |
| Both Humane natures and Divine | J |
| There was not so much sorrow spi'd | C |
| No not that Day the sweet Adonis died | C |
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| II | - |
| Ambitious both to know the Ill and to partake | K |
| The little Weeping Gods I thus bespake | K |
| Ye Noblest Pow'rs and Gentlest that Above | L |
| Govern us Men but govern still with Love | L |
| Vouchsafe to tell what can that Sorrow be | I |
| Disorders Heaven and wounds a Deitie | C |
| My Prayer not spoken out | C |
| One of the Winged Rout | C |
| With Indignation great | C |
| Sprung from his Airie Seat | C |
| And mounting to a Higher Cloud | C |
| With Thunder or a Voice as loud | C |
| - | |
| Cried Mortal there there seek the Grief o'th' Gods | M |
| Where thou findst Plagues and their revengeful Rods | M |
| And in the Instant that the Thing was meant | C |
| He bent his Bow his Arrow plac't and to the mark it sent | C |
| I follow'd with my watchful Eye | - |
| To the Place where the Shaft did flie | N |
| But O unheard of Prodigy | I |
| It was retorted back again | O |
| And he that sent it felt the pain | P |
| Alas I think the little God was therewith slain | P |
| But wanton Darts ne're pierce where Honours found | C |
| And those that shoot them do their own Breasts wound | C |
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| III | - |
| The Place from which the Arrow did return | Q |
| Swifter then sent and with the speed did burn | Q |
| Was a Proud Pile which Marble Columnes bare | H |
| Tarrast beneath and open to the Aire | H |
| On either side Cords of wove Gold did tie | - |
| A purfl'd Curtain hanging from on high | - |
| To clear the Prospect of the stately Bower | H |
| And boast the Owners Dignity and Power | H |
| This shew'd the Scene from whence Loves grief arose | R |
| And Heaven and Nature both did discompose | R |
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| A little Nymph whose Limbs divinely bright | C |
| Lay like a Body of Collected Light | C |
| But not to Love and Courtship so disclos'd | C |
| But to the Rigour of a Dame oppos'd | C |
| Who instant on the Faire with Words and Blows | R |
| Now chastens Error and now Virtue shews | R |
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| IV | - |
| But O thou no less Blind | C |
| Than Wild and Savage Mind | C |
| Who Discipline dar'st name | S |
| Thy Outrage and thy shame | S |
| And hop'st a Radiant Crown to get | C |
| All Stars and Glory to thy Head made fit | C |
| Know that this Curse alone shall Serpent like incircle it | C |
| May'st thou henceforth be ever seen to stand | C |
| Grasping a Scourge of Vipers in thy Hand | C |
| Thy Hand that Furie like But see | R |
| By Apollos Sacred Tree | R |
| By his ever Tuneful Lyre | H |
| And his bright Image the Eternal Fire | H |
| Eudoras she has done this Deed | C |
| And made the World thus in its Darling bleed | C |
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| I know the Cruel Dame | S |
| Too well instructed by my Flame | S |
| But see her shape But see her Face | R |
| In her Temple such is Diana's Grace | R |
| Behold her Lute upon the Pavement lies | R |
| When Beautie's wrong'd no wonder Musick dies | R |
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| V | R |
| What blood of Centaurs did thy Bosom warme | S |
| And boyle the Balsome there up to a Storme | S |
| Nay Balsome flow'd not with so soft a Floud | C |
| As thy Thoughts Evenly Virtuous Mildly Good | C |
| How could thy Skilful and Harmonious Hand | C |
| That Rage of Seas and People could command | C |
| And calme Diseases with the Charming strings | R |
| Such Discords make in the whole Name of Things | R |
| But now I see the Root of thy Rash Pride | C |
| Because thou didst Excel the World beside | C |
| And it in Beauty and in Fame out shine | J |
| Thou would'st compare thy self to things Divine | J |
| And 'bove thy Standard what thou there didst see | R |
| Thou didst Condemn because 'twas unlike thee | R |
| And punisht in the Lady as unfit | C |
| What Bloomings were of a Diviner Wit | C |
| Divine she is or else Divine must be | R |
| A Borne or else a Growing Deitie | C |
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| VI | - |
| While thus I did exclaime | S |
| And wildly rage and blame | S |
| Behold the Sylvan Quire | H |
| Did all at one conspire | H |
| With shrill and cheerful Throats | R |
| T'assume their chirping Notes | R |
| The Heav'ns refulgent Eye | - |
| Dance't in the clear'd up Skie | K |
| And so triumphant shon | T |
| As seven days Beams he had on | T |
| The little Loves burn'd with nobler fier | H |
| Each chang'd his wanton Bow and took a Lyre | H |
| Singing chast Aires unto the tuneful strings | R |
| And time'd soft Musick with their downy Wings | R |
| I turn'd the little Nymph to view | - |
| She singing and did smiling shew | - |
| Eudora led a heav'nly strain | P |
| Her Angels Voice did eccho it again | O |
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| I then decreed no Sacriledge was wrought | C |
| But neerer Heav'n this Piece of Heaven was brought | C |
| She also brighter seem'd than she had been | U |
| Vertue darts forth a Light'ning 'bove the Skin | U |
| Eudora also shew'd as heretofore | H |
| When her soft Graces I did first adore | H |
| I saw what one did Nobly Will | N |
| The other sweetly did fulfil | N |
| Their Actions all harmoniously did sute | C |
| And she had only tun'd the Lady like her Lute | C |
Anne Killigrew
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