The Speech Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFCCDDGGCCHH IIJJCCCCJJCCIIDDKKJJ II CCIILLDDCCIIDDMMDDII| The long laments I spent for ruin'd Troy | A |
| Are dried and now mine eyes run teares of joy | A |
| No more shall men suppose Electra dead | B |
| Though from the consort of her sisters fled | B |
| Unto the Artick circle here to grace | C |
| And gild this day with her serenest face | C |
| And see my daughter Iris hastes to throw | D |
| Her roseat wings in compasse of a bow | E |
| About our State as signe of my approach | F |
| Attracting to her seate from Mithras coach | F |
| A thousand different and particular hiewes | C |
| Which she throughout her body doth diffuse | C |
| The Sun as loth to part from this halfe Spheare | D |
| Stands still and Phoebe labors to appeare | D |
| In all as bright if not as rich as he | G |
| And for a note of more serenity | G |
| My six faire sisters hither shift their lights | C |
| To do this hower the utmost of her rites | C |
| Where lest the captious or prophane might doubt | H |
| How these cleare heavenly bodies come about | H |
| All to be seen at once yet neithers light | I |
| Eclips'd or shadow'd by the others sight | I |
| Let ignorance know great King this day is thine | J |
| And doth admit no night but all do shine | J |
| As well nocturnall as diurnall fires | C |
| To adde unto the flame of our desires | C |
| Which are now thou hast closd up Janus gates | C |
| And giv'n so generall peace to all Estates | C |
| That no offensive mist or cloudy staine | J |
| May mixe with splendor of thy golden raigne | J |
| But as th'ast free'd thy Chamber from the noyse | C |
| Of war and tumult thou wilt powre those joyes | C |
| Upon this place which claimes to be the seate | I |
| Of all the kingly race the cabinet | I |
| To all thy counsels and the judging chaire | D |
| To this thy speciall Kingdome Who so faire | D |
| And wholsome laws in every Court shall strive | K |
| By quity and their first innocence to thrive | K |
| The base and guilty bribes of guiltier men | J |
| Shall be thrown back and Justice look as when | J |
| She lov'd the earth and fear'd not to be sold | I |
| For that which worketh all things to it gold | I |
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| The Dam of other evils avarice | C |
| Shall here locke down her jaws and that rude vice | C |
| Of ignorant and pittied greatnesse pride | I |
| Decline with shame ambition now shall hide | I |
| Her face in dust as dedicate to sleep | L |
| That in great portals wont her watch to keep | L |
| All ils shall fly the light Thy Court be free | D |
| No lesse from envy than from flattery | D |
| All tumult faction and harsh discord cease | C |
| That might perturbe the musick of thy peace | C |
| The querulous nature shall no longer finde | I |
| Room for his thoughts One pure consent of minde | I |
| Shall flow in every brest and not the ayre | D |
| Sun Moon or Stars shine more serenely faire | D |
| This from that loud blest Oracle I sing | M |
| Who here and first pronounc'd thee Brittaines King | M |
| Long maist thou live and see me thus appeare | D |
| As ominous a Comet from my Spheare | D |
| Unto thy raigne as that did auspicate | I |
| So lasting glory to Augustus State | I |
Ben Jonson
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