Elegies, Book One, 5 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHII JJIIGGKK| In summer s heat and mid time of the day | A |
| To rest my limbs upon a bed I lay | A |
| One window shut the other open stood | B |
| Which gave such light as twinkles in a wood | B |
| Like twilight glimpse at setting of the sun | C |
| Or night being past and yet not day begun | C |
| Such light to shamefaced maidens must be shown | D |
| Where they may sport and seem to be unknown | D |
| Then came Corinna in a long loose gown | E |
| Her white neck hid with tresses hanging down | E |
| Resembling fair Semiramis going to bed | F |
| Or La s of a thousand wooers sped | F |
| I snatched her gown being thin the harm was small | G |
| Yet strived she to be covered therewithal | G |
| And striving thus as one that would be cast | H |
| Betrayed herself and yielded at the last | H |
| Stark naked as she stood before mine eye | I |
| Not one wen in her body could I spy | I |
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| What arms and shoulders did I touch and see | J |
| How apt her breasts were to be pressed by me | J |
| How smooth a belly under her waist saw I | I |
| How large a leg and what a lusty thigh | I |
| To leave the rest all liked me passing well | G |
| I clinged her naked body down she fell | G |
| Judge you the rest being tired she bad me kiss | K |
| Jove send me more such afternoons as this | K |
Christopher Marlowe
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