Lament For Zenocrate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMMNOLPQR LSLTLTTTLUTUUTNUU| Black is the beauty of the brightest day | A |
| The golden belle of heaven's eternal fire | B |
| That danced with glory on the silver waves | C |
| Now wants the fuel that inflamed his beams | D |
| And all with faintness and for foul disgrace | E |
| He binds his temples with a frowning cloud | F |
| Ready to darken earth with endless night | G |
| Zenocrate that gave him light and life | H |
| Whose eyes shot fire from their ivory bowers | I |
| And tempered every soul with lively heat | J |
| Now by the malice of the angry skies | K |
| Whose jealousy admits no second mate | L |
| Draws in the comfort of her latest breath | M |
| All dazzled with the hellish mists of death | M |
| Now walk the angels on the walls of heaven | N |
| As sentinels to warn th'immortal souls | O |
| To entertain divine Zenocrate | L |
| Apollo Cynthia and the ceaseless lamps | P |
| That gently looked upon this loathsome earth | Q |
| Shine downwards now no more but deck the heavens | R |
| To entertain divine Zenocrate | L |
| The crystal springs whose taste illuminates | S |
| Refined eyes with an eternal sight | L |
| Like tried silver runs through Paradise | T |
| To entertain divine Zenocrate | L |
| The Cherubins and holy Seraphins | T |
| That sing and play before the King of Kings | T |
| Use all their voices and their instruments | T |
| To entertain divine Zenocrate | L |
| And in this sweet and curious harmony | U |
| The God that tunes this music to our souls | T |
| Holds out his hand in highest majesty | U |
| To entertain divine Zenocrate | U |
| Then let some holy trance convey my thoughts | T |
| Up to the palace of th'imperial heaven | N |
| That this my life may be as short to me | U |
| As are the days of sweet Zenocrate | U |
Christopher Marlowe
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