The Cautious Lovers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKJK LJLJ JMJM NOPO QJQJ RSRT EJEJ JJJJ JUJU VNVP WJPJ| Silvia let's from the Crowd retire | A |
| For What to you and me | B |
| Who but each other do desire | C |
| Is all that here we see | B |
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| Apart we'll live tho' not alone | D |
| For who alone can call | E |
| Those who in Desarts live with One | F |
| If in that One they've All | E |
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| The World a vast Meander is | G |
| Where Hearts confus'dly stray | H |
| Where Few do hit whilst Thousands miss | I |
| The happy mutual Way | H |
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| Where Hands are by stern Parents ty'd | J |
| Who oft in Cupid's Scorn | K |
| Do for the widow'd State provide | J |
| Before that Love is born | K |
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| Where some too soon themselves misplace | L |
| Then in Another find | J |
| The only Temper Wit or Face | L |
| That cou'd affect their Mind | J |
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| Others but oh avert that Fate | J |
| A well chose Object change | M |
| Fly Silvia fly ere 'tis too late | J |
| Fall'n Nature's prone to range | M |
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| And tho' in heat of Love we swear | N |
| More than perform we can | O |
| No Goddess You but Woman are | P |
| And I no more than Man | O |
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| Th' impatient Silvia heard thus long | Q |
| Then with a Smile reply'd | J |
| Those Bands cou'd ne'er be very strong | Q |
| Which Accidents divide | J |
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| Who e'er was mov'd yet to go down | R |
| By such o'er cautious Fear | S |
| Or for one Lover left the Town | R |
| Who might have Numbers here | T |
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| Your Heart 'tis true is worth them all | E |
| And still preferr'd the first | J |
| But since confess'd so apt to fall | E |
| 'Tis good to fear the worst | J |
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| In ancient History we meet | J |
| A flying Nymph betray'd | J |
| Who had she kept in fruitful Crete | J |
| New Conquest might have made | J |
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| And sure as on the Beach she stood | J |
| To view the parting Sails | U |
| She curs'd her self more than the Flood | J |
| Or the conspiring Gales | U |
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| False Theseus since thy Vows are broke | V |
| May following Nymphs beware | N |
| Methinks I hear how thus she spoke | V |
| And will not trust too far | P |
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| In Love in Play in Trade in War | W |
| They best themselves acquit | J |
| Who tho' their Int'rests shipwreckt are | P |
| Keep unreprov'd their Wit | J |
Anne Kingsmill Finch
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