Against Urania Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDABDDEFFDEAAGHH GAI JKLKJMMJLMNNOPQPRJOO J| Lo I Song's most true lover plain me sore | A |
| That worse than other women she can deceive | B |
| For she being goddess I have given her more | A |
| Than mortal ladies from their loves receive | B |
| And first of her embrace | C |
| She was not coy and gracious were her ways | D |
| That I forgot all virgins to adore | A |
| Nor did I greatly grieve | B |
| To bear through arid days | D |
| The pretty foil of her divine delays | D |
| And one by one to cast | E |
| Life love and health | F |
| Content and wealth | F |
| Before her thinking ever on her praise | D |
| Until at last | E |
| Nought had I left she would be gracious for | A |
| Now of her cozening I complain me sore | A |
| Seeing her uses | G |
| That still more constantly she is pursued | H |
| And straitlier wooed | H |
| Her only ador ed favour more refuses | G |
| And leaves me to implore | A |
| Remembered boon in bitterness of blood | I |
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| From mortal woman thou may'st know full well | J |
| O poet that dost deem the fair and tall | K |
| Urania of her ways not mutable | L |
| When things shall thee befall | K |
| What thou art toil ed in her sweet wild spell | J |
| Do they strow for thy feet | M |
| A little tender favour and deceit | M |
| Over the sudden mouth of hidden hell | J |
| As more intolerable | L |
| Her pit as her first kiss is heavenlier sweet | M |
| Are they the more thou sigh | N |
| Still the more watchful cruel to deny | N |
| Know this that in her service thou shalt learn | O |
| How harder than the heart of woman is | P |
| The immortal cruelty | Q |
| Of the high goddesses | P |
| True is his witness who doth witness this | R |
| Whose gaze too early fell | J |
| Nor thence shall turn | O |
| Nor in those fires shall cease to weep and burn | O |
| Upon her ruinous eyes and ineludible | J |
Francis Thompson
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