Icarus, Robert Jones's Second Book Of Songs And Airs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEAA FFGGHH| LOVE wing'd my Hopes and taught me how to fly | A |
| Far from base earth but not to mount too high | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp For true pleasure | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Lives in measure | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Which if men forsake | C |
| Blinded they into folly run and grief for pleasure take | C |
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| But my vain Hopes proud of their new taught flight | D |
| Enamour'd sought to woo the sun's fair light | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Whose rich brightness | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Moved their lightness | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp To aspire so high | A |
| That all scorch'd and consumed with fire now drown'd in woe they lie | A |
| - | |
| And none but Love their woeful hap did rue | F |
| For Love did know that their desires were true | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Though fate frowned | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And now drowned | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp They in sorrow dwell | H |
| It was the purest light of heav'n for whose fair love they fell | H |
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