Poet Edmund Waller

Edmund Waller

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At Penshurst Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLFFMMNNOPQG

Had Sacharissa lived when mortals madeA
Choice of their deities this sacred shadeA
Had held an alter to her power that gaveB
The peace and glory which these alleys haveC
Embroidered so with flowers where she stoodD
That it became a garden of a woodD
Her presence has such more than human graceE
That it can civilize the rudest placeE
And beauty too and order can impartF
Where nature ne'er intended it nor artF
The plants acknowledge this and her admireG
No less than those of old did Orpheus' lyreG
If she sit down with tops all towards her bowedH
They round about her into arbors crowdH
Or if she walk in even ranks they standI
Like some well marshaled and obsequious bandI
Amphion so made stones and timber leapJ
Into fair figures from a confused heapJ
And in the symmetry of her parts is foundK
A power like that of harmony in soundK
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Ye lofty beeches tell this matchless dameL
That if together ye fed all one flameL
It could not equalize the hundredth partF
Of what her eyes have kindled in my heartF
Go boy and carve this passion on the barkM
Of yonder tree which stands the sacred markM
Of noble Sidney's birth when such benignN
Such more than mortal making stars did shineN
That there they cannot but forever proveO
The monument and pledge of humble loveP
His humble love whose hopes shall ne'er rise higherQ
Than for a pardon that he dares admireG

Edmund Waller



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