Cupid And Folly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIJ HHKKHHLLMNHHOOPPQQ| CUPID ere depriv'd of Sight | A |
| Young and apt for all Delight | A |
| Met with Folly on the way | B |
| As Idle and as fond of Play | B |
| In gay Sports the time they pass | C |
| Now run now wrestle on the Grass | C |
| Their painted Wings then nimbly ply | D |
| And ev'ry way for Mast'ry try | D |
| 'Till a Contest do's arise | E |
| Who has won th' appointed Prize | E |
| Gentle Love refers the Case | F |
| To the next that comes in Place | F |
| Trusting to his flatt'ring Wiles | G |
| And softens the Dispute with Smiles | G |
| But Folly who no Temper knows | H |
| Words pursues with hotter Blows | H |
| 'Till the eyes of Love were lost | I |
| Which has such Pain to Mortals cost | J |
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| Venus hears his mournful Crys | H |
| And repeats 'em in the Skys | H |
| To Jupiter in Council set | K |
| With Peers for the Occasion met | K |
| In her Arms the Boy she bears | H |
| Bathing him in falling Tears | H |
| And whilst his want of Eyes is shown | L |
| Secures the Judges by her Own | L |
| Folly to the Board must come | M |
| And hear the Tryal and the Doom | N |
| Which Cytherea loudly prays | H |
| May be as heavy as the Case | H |
| Which when All was justly weigh'd | O |
| Cupid's Wings now useless made | O |
| That a staff his Feet must guide | P |
| Which wou'd still be apt to slide | P |
| This Decree at last was read | Q |
| That Love by Folly shou'd be lead | Q |
Anne Kingsmill Finch
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