The Remedy Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCAADEFFGGHHIJKKLL MMNNOOPBQQRRSSTTUUKQ VCWWXXYYCCZA2B2B2C2C 2JD2E2E2VCF2F2G2G2QQ H2H2F2F2UUJIQQI2I2J2 J2K2K2CVCL2UUM2M2CL2 N2N2O2P2Q2Q2OOO2O2R2 R2S2S2RRQQRRHHOOQQT2 T2QQU2U2V2V2I2I2CCQQ CCF2F2W2W2W2W2X2X2Y2 Z2F2F2A3A3QQA3BQ2W2Q QB3B3C3C3LLRRBW2A3A3 A3A3QQQQQQA3A3When Cupid read this title straight he said | A |
'Wars I perceive against me will be made ' | B |
But spare oh Love to tax thy poet so | C |
Who oft bath borne thy ensign 'gainst thy foe | C |
I am not he by whom thy mother bled | A |
When she to heaven on Mars his horses fled | A |
I oft like other youths thy flame did prove | D |
And if thou ask what I do still I love | E |
Nay I have taught by art to keep Love's course | F |
And made that reason which before was force | F |
I seek not to betray thee pretty boy | G |
Nor what I once have written to destroy | G |
If any love and find his mistress kind | H |
Let him go on and sail with his own wind | H |
But he that by his love is discontented | I |
To save his life my verses were invented | J |
Why should a lover kill himself or why | K |
Should any with his own grief wounded die | K |
Thou art a boy to play becomes thee still | L |
Thy reign is soft play then and do not kill | L |
Or if thou'lt needs be vexing then do this | M |
Make lovers meet by stealth and steal a kiss | M |
Make them to fear lest any overwatch them | N |
And tremble when they think some come to catch them | N |
And with those tears that lovers shed all night | O |
Be thou content but do not kill outright | O |
Love heard and up his silver wings did heave | P |
And said 'Write on I freely give thee leave ' | B |
Come then all ye despised that love endure | Q |
I that have felt the wounds your love will cure | Q |
But come at first for if you make delay | R |
Your sickness will grow mortal by your stay | R |
The tree which by delay is grown so big | S |
In the beginning was a tender twig | S |
That which at first was but a span in length | T |
Will by delay be rooted past men's strength | T |
Resist beginnings medicines bring no curing | U |
Where sickness is grown strong by long enduring | U |
When first thou seest a lass that likes thine eye | K |
Bend all thy present powers to descry | Q |
Whether her eye or carriage first would shew | V |
If she be fit for love's delights or no | C |
Some will be easy such an one elect | W |
But she that bears too grave and stern aspect | W |
Take heed of her and make her not thy jewel | X |
Either she cannot love or will be cruel | X |
If love assail thee there betime take heed | Y |
Those wounds are dangerous that inward bleed | Y |
He that to day cannot shake off love's sorrow | C |
Will certainly be more unapt to morrow | C |
Love bath so eloquent and quick a tongue | Z |
That he will lead thee all thy life along | A2 |
And on a sudden clasp thee in a yoke | B2 |
Where thou must either draw or striving choke | B2 |
Strive then betimes for at the first one hand | C2 |
May stop a water drill that wears the sand | C2 |
But if delayed it breaks into a flood | J |
Mountains will hardly make the passage good | D2 |
But I am out for now I do begin | E2 |
To keep them off not heal those that are in | E2 |
First therefore lovers I intend to shew | V |
How love came to you then how he may go | C |
You that would not know what love's passions be | F2 |
Never be idle learn that rule of me | F2 |
Ease makes you love as that o'ercomes your wills | G2 |
Ease is the food and cause of all your ills | G2 |
Turn ease and idleness but out of door | Q |
Love's darts are broke his flame can burn no more | Q |
As feeds and willows love the water's side | H2 |
So love loves with the idle to abide | H2 |
If then at liberty you fain would be | F2 |
Love yields to labour labour and be free | F2 |
Long sleeps soft beds rich vintage and high feeding | U |
Nothing to do and pleasure of exceeding | U |
Dulls all our senses makes our virtue stupid | J |
And then creeps in that crafty villain Cupid | I |
That boy loves ease a' life hates such a stir | Q |
Therefore thy mind to better things prefer | Q |
Behold thy country's enemies in arms | I2 |
At home love gripes the heart in his sly charms | I2 |
Then rise and put on armour cast off sloth | J2 |
Thy labour may at once o'ercome them both | J2 |
If this seem hard and too unpleasant then | K2 |
Behold the law set forth by God and men | K2 |
Sit down and study that that thou may'st know | C |
The way to guide thyself and others shew | V |
Or if thou lov'st not to be shut up so | C |
Learn to assail the deer with trusty bow | L2 |
That through the woods thy well mouth'd bounds may ring | U |
Whose echo better joys than love will sing | U |
There may'st thou chance to bring thy love to end | M2 |
Diana unto Venus is no friend | M2 |
The country will afford thee means enow | C |
Sometimes disdain not to direct the plough | L2 |
To follow through the fields the bleating lamb | N2 |
That mourns to miss the comfort of his dam | N2 |
Assist the harvest help to prune the trees | O2 |
Graft plant and sow no kind of labour leese | P2 |
Set nets for birds with hook'd lines bait for fish | Q2 |
Which will employ thy mind and fill thy dish | Q2 |
That being weary with these pains at night | O |
Sound sleep may put the thoughts of love to flight | O |
With such delights or labours as are these | O2 |
Forget to love and learn thyself to please | O2 |
But chiefly learn this lesson for my sake | R2 |
Fly from her far some journey undertake | R2 |
I know thou'lt grieve and that her name once told | S2 |
Will be enough thy journey to withhold | S2 |
But when thou find'st thyself most bent to stay | R |
Compel thy feet to run with thee away | R |
Nor do thou wish that rain or stormy weather | Q |
May stay your steps and bring you back together | Q |
Count not the miles you pass nor doubt the way | R |
Lest those respects should turn you back to stay | R |
Tell not the clock nor look not once behind | H |
But fly like lightning or the northern wind | H |
For where we are too much o'ermatch'd in might | O |
There is no way for safe guard but by flight | O |
But some will count my lines too hard and bitter | Q |
I must confess them hard but yet 'tis better | Q |
To fast a while that health may be provoked | T2 |
Than feed at plenteous tables and be choked | T2 |
To cure the wretched body I am sure | Q |
Both fire and steel thou gladly wilt endure | Q |
Wilt thou not then take pains by any art | U2 |
To cure thy mind which is thy better part | U2 |
The hardness is at first and that once past | V2 |
Pleasant and easy ways will come at last | V2 |
I do not bid thee strive with witches' charms | I2 |
Or such unholy acts to cure thy harms | I2 |
Ceres herself who all these things did know | C |
Had never power to cure her own love so | C |
No take this medicine which of all is sure | Q |
Labour and absence is the only cure | Q |
But if the fates compel thee in such fashion | C |
That thou must needs live near her habitation | C |
And canst not fly her sight learn here of me | F2 |
Thou that would'st fain and canst not yet be free | F2 |
Set all thy mistress' faults before thine eyes | W2 |
And all thy own disgraces well advise | W2 |
Say to thyself that 'she is covetous | W2 |
Hath ta'en my gifts and used me thus and thus | W2 |
Thus hath she sworn to me and thug deceived | X2 |
Thus have I hoped and thus have been bereaved | X2 |
With love she feeds my rival while I starve | Y2 |
And pours on him kisses which I deserve | Z2 |
She follows him with smiles and gives to me | F2 |
Sad looks no lover's but a stranger's fee | F2 |
All those embraces I so oft desired | A3 |
To him she offers daily unrequired | A3 |
Whose whole desert and half mine weighed together | Q |
Would make mine lead and his seem cork and feather | Q |
Then let her go and since she proves so hard | A3 |
Regard thyself and give her no regard ' | B |
Thus must thou school thyself and I could wish | Q2 |
Thee to thyself most eloquent in this | W2 |
But put on grief enough and do not fear | Q |
Grief will enforce thy eloquence t' appear | Q |
Thus I myself the love did once expel | B3 |
Of one whose coyness vex'd my soul like hell | B3 |
I must confess she touch'd me to the quick | C3 |
And that am physician then was sick | C3 |
But this I found to profit I did still | L |
Ruminate what I thought in her was ill | L |
And for to cure myself I found a way | R |
Some honest slanders on her for to lay | R |
Quoth I 'How lamely doth my mistress go ' | B |
Although I must confess it was not so | W2 |
I said her arms were crooked fingers bent | A3 |
Her shoulders bow'd her legs consumed and spent | A3 |
Her colour sad her neck as dark as night | A3 |
When Venus might in all have ta'en delight | A3 |
But yet because I would no more come nigh her | Q |
Myself unto myself did thus bely her | Q |
Do thou the like and though she fair appear | Q |
Think vice to virtue often comes too near | Q |
And in that error though it be an error | Q |
Preserve thyself from any further terror | Q |
If she be round and plump say she's too fat | A3 |
If brown say black and thick who cares for that | A3 |
Francis Beaumont
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