The Glance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAADBBBAAEEBBBB FFAAAAGGAAHHII| Cold Virtue guard me or I shall endure | A |
| From the next glance a double calenture | A |
| Of fire and lust Two flames two Semeles | B |
| Dwell in those eyes whose looser glowing rays | B |
| Would thaw the frozen Russian into lust | C |
| And parch tile negro's hotter blood to dust | C |
| Dart not your bllls of wild fire here go throw | A |
| Those flakes upon the eunuch's colder snow | A |
| Till he in active blood do boil as high | D |
| As he that made him so in jealousy | B |
| When that loose queen of love did dress her eyes | B |
| In the most taking flame to the prize | B |
| At Ida that faint glare to this desire | A |
| Burnt like a taper to the zone of fire | A |
| And could she then the lustful youth have crowned | E |
| With thee his Helen Troy had never found | E |
| Her fate in Sinon's fire thy hotter eyes | B |
| Had made it burn a quicker sacrifice | B |
| To lust whilst every glance in subtle wiles | B |
| Had shot itself like lightning through the piles | B |
| Go blow upon some equal blood and let | F |
| Earth's hotter ray engender and beget | F |
| New flames to dress the aged Paphians' quire | A |
| And lend the world new Cupids borne on fire | A |
| Dart no more here those flatmes nor strive to throw | A |
| Your fire on him who is immured in snow | A |
| Those glances work on me like the weak shine | G |
| The frosty sun throws on the Appenine | G |
| When the hill's active coldness doth go near | A |
| To freeze the glimmering taper to his sphere | A |
| Each ray is lost on me like the faint light | H |
| The glow worm shoots at the cold breast of night | H |
| Thus virtue can secure but for that name | I |
| I had been now sin's martyr and your flame | I |
Francis Beaumont
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