Cupid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GHIIEE JJJKLL MMMMCC| Beauties have ye seen this toy | A |
| Called love a little boy | A |
| Almost naked wanton blind | B |
| Cruel now and then as kind | B |
| If he be amongst ye say | C |
| He is Venus' runaway | C |
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| He hath of marks about him plenty | D |
| Ye shall know him among twenty | D |
| All his body is a fire | E |
| And his breath a flame entire | E |
| That being shot like lightning in | F |
| Wounds the heart but not the skin | F |
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| He doth bear a golden bow | G |
| And a quiver hanging low | H |
| Full of arrows that outbrave | I |
| Dian's shafts where if he have | I |
| Any head more sharp than other | E |
| With that first he strikes his mother | E |
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| Trust him not his words though sweet | J |
| Seldom with his heart do meet | J |
| All his practice is deceit | J |
| Every gift is but a bait | K |
| Not a kiss but poison bears | L |
| And most treason in his tears | L |
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| If by these ye please to know him | M |
| Beauties be not nice but show him | M |
| Though ye had a will to hide him | M |
| Now we hope ye'll not abide him | M |
| Since ye hear his falser play | C |
| And that he's Venus' runaway | C |
Ben Jonson
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