To A Lady Singing A Song Of His Composing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG| Chloris yourself you so excel | A |
| When you vouchsafe to breathe my thought | B |
| That like a spirit with this spell | A |
| Of my own teaching I am taught | B |
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| That eagle's fate and mine are one | C |
| Which on the shaft that made him die | D |
| Espied a feather of his own | E |
| Wherewith he wont to soar so high | D |
| - | |
| Had Echo with so sweet a grace | F |
| Narcissus' loud complaints returned | G |
| Not for reflection of his face | F |
| But of his voice the boy had burned | G |
Edmund Waller
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