The Examination Of His Mistress's Perfections Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGHIIJJKLMM DDNNOPQQCRSSTTUUGH| Stand still my happiness and swelling heart | A |
| No more till I consider what thou art | A |
| Desire of knowledge was man's fatal vice | B |
| For when our parents were in paradise | B |
| Though they themselves and all they saw was good | C |
| They thought it nothing if not understood | C |
| And I part of their seed struck with their sin | D |
| Though by their bounteous favour I be in | D |
| A paradise where I may freely taste | E |
| Of all the virtuous pleasures which thou hast | F |
| Wanting that knowledge must in all my bliss | G |
| Err with my parents and ask what it is | H |
| My faith saith 'tis not Heaven and I dare swear | I |
| If it be Hell no sense of pain is there | I |
| Sure 'tis some pleasant place where I may stay | J |
| As I to Heaven go in the middle way | J |
| Wert thou but fair and no whit virtuous | K |
| Thou wert no more to me but a fair house | L |
| Haunted with spirits from which men do them bless | M |
| And no man will half furnish to possess | M |
| Or hadst thou worth wrapt in a rivell'd skin | D |
| 'Twere inaccessible who durst go in | D |
| To find it out far sooner would I go | N |
| To find a pearl covered witli hills of snow | N |
| 'Twere buried virtue and thou mightst me move | O |
| To reverence the tomb but not to love | P |
| No more than dotingly to cast mine eye | Q |
| Upon the urn where Luerece' ashes lie | Q |
| But thou art fair and sweet and every good | C |
| That ever yet durst mix with flesh and blood | R |
| The devil ne'er saw in his fallen state | S |
| An object whereupon to ground his hate | S |
| So fit as thee all living things but he | T |
| Love thee how happy then must that man be | T |
| Whom from amongst all creatures thou dost take | U |
| Is there a hope beyond it Can he make | U |
| A wish to change thee for This is my bliss | G |
| Let it run on now I know what it is | H |
Francis Beaumont
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