On The Marriage Of A Beauteous Young Gentlewoman With An Ancient Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHIJKLMM NOPQRRSSGGGG| Fondly too curious Nature to adorn | A |
| Aurora with the blushes of the morn | A |
| Why do her rosy lips breath gums and spice | B |
| Unto the East and sweet to Paradise | B |
| Why do her eyes open the day her hand | C |
| And voice intrance the panther and command | C |
| Incensed winds her breasts the tents of love | D |
| Smooth as the godded swan or Venus' dove | D |
| Soft as the balmy dew whose every touch | E |
| Is pregnant but why those rich spoils when such | E |
| Wonder and perfection must be led | F |
| A bridal captive unto Tithon's bed | F |
| Ag'd and deformed Tithon must thy twine | G |
| Circle and blast at once what care and time | H |
| Had made for wonder must pure beauty have | I |
| No other foil but ruin and a grave | J |
| So have I seen the pride of Nature's store | K |
| The orient pearl chained to the sooty Moor | L |
| So hath the diamond's bright ray been set | M |
| In night and wedded to the negro jet | M |
| See see how thick those showers of pearl do fall | N |
| To weep her ransom or her funeral | O |
| Whose every treasured drop congealed might bring | P |
| Freedom and ransom to a fettered kin | Q |
| While tyrant Wealth stands by and laughs to see | R |
| How he can wed love and antipathy | R |
| Hymen thy pine burns with adulterate fire | S |
| Thou and thy quivered boy did once conspire | S |
| To mingle equal flames and then no shine | G |
| Of gold but beauty dressed the Paphian shrine | G |
| Roses and lilies kiss'd the amorous vine | G |
| Did with the fair and straight limb'd elm entwine | G |
Francis Beaumont
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