Again Endorsing The Lady, Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFEFGG HFHFII| I thought that I was wholly free | A |
| That I had Love upon the shelf | B |
| Hereafter I declared in glee | A |
| I'll have my evenings to myself | B |
| How can such mortal beauty live | C |
| Ah Jove thine errings I forgive | D |
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| Her tresses pale the sunlight's gold | E |
| Her hands are featly formed and taper | F |
| Her well the rest ought not be told | E |
| In any modest family paper | F |
| Fair as Ischomache and bright | G |
| As Brimo Qu que queen is right | G |
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| O goddesses of long ago | H |
| A shepherd called ye sweet and slender | F |
| He saw ye so he ought to know | H |
| But sooth to her ye must surrender | F |
| O may a million years not trace | I |
| A single line upon that face | I |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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