Hero And Leander. The Third Sestiad Poem Rhyme Scheme

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New light gives new directions fortunes new	A
To fashion our endeavours that ensue	A
More harsh at least more hard more grave and high	B
Our subject runs and our stern Muse must fly	B
Love's edge is taken off and that light flame	C
Those thoughts joys longings that before became	C
High unexperienc'd blood and maids' sharp plights	A
Must now grow staid and censure the delights	A
That being enjoy'd ask judgment now we praise	A
As having parted evenings crown the days	A
And now ye wanton Loves and young Desires	A
Pied Vanity the mint of strange attires	A
Ye lisping Flatteries and obsequious Glances	A
Relentful Musics and attractive Dances	A
And you detested Charms constraining love	D
Shun love's stoln sports by that these lovers prove	E
By this the sovereign of heaven's golden fires	A
And young Leander lord of his desires	A
Together from their lovers' arms arose	A
Leander into Hellespontus throws	A
His Hero handled body whose delight	F
Made him disdain each other epithite	F
And as amidst th' enamour'd waves he swims	A
The god of gold of purpose gilt his limbs	A
That this word gilt including double sense	A
The double guilt of his incontinence	A
Might be express'd that had no stay t' employ	G
The treasure which the love god let him joy	G
In his dear Hero with such sacred thrift	F
As had beseem'd so sanctified a gift	F
But like a greedy vulgar prodigal	H
Would on the stock dispend and rudely fall	I
Before his time to that unblessed blessing	J
Which for lust's plague doth perish with possessing	J
Joy graven in sense like snow in water wasts	A
Without preserve of virtue nothing lasts	A
What man is he that with a wealthy eye	B
Enjoys a beauty richer than the sky	B
Through whose white skin softer than soundest sleep	K
With damask eyes the ruby blood doth peep	K
And runs in branches through her azure veins	A
Whose mixture and first fire his love attains	A
Whose both hands limit both love's deities	A
And sweeten human thoughts like Paradise	A
Whose disposition silken is and kind	F
Directed with an earth exempted mind	F
Who thinks not heaven with such a love is given	L
And who like earth would spend that dower of heaven	L
With rank desire to joy it all at first	F
What simply kills our hunger quencheth thirst	F
Clothes but our nakedness and makes us live	M
Praise doth not any of her favours give	N
But what doth plentifully minister	O
Beauteous apparel and delicious cheer	P
So order'd that it still excites desire	O
And still gives pleasure freeness to aspire	Q
The palm of Bounty ever moist preserving	J
To Love's sweet life this is the courtly carving	J
Thus Time and all states ordering Ceremony	R
Had banish'd all offence Time's golden thigh	B
Upholds the flowery body of the earth	S
In sacred harmony and every birth	S
Of men and actions makes legitimate	F
Being us'd aright the use of time is fate	F
Yet did the gentle flood transfer once more	T
This prize of love home to his father's shore	T
Where he unlades himself on that false wealth	U
That makes few rich treasures compos'd by stealth	U
And to his sister kind Hermione	R
Who on the shore kneel'd praying to the sea	R
For his return he all love's goods did show	V
In Hero seis'd for him in him for Hero	V
His most kind sister all his secrets knew	R
And to her singing like a shower he flew	R
Sprinkling the earth that to their tombs took in	R
Streams dead for love to leave his ivory shin	R
Which yet a snowy foam did leave above	D
As soul to the dead water that did love	D
And from hence did the first white roses spring	J
For love is sweet and fair in everything	J
And all the sweeten'd shore as he did go	V
Was crown'd with odorous roses white as snow	V
Love blest Leander was with love so fill'd	F
That love to all that touch'd him he instill'd	F
And as the colours of all things we see	R
To our sight's powers communicated be	R
So to all objects that in compass came	C
Of any sense he had his senses' flame	C
Flow'd from his parts with force so virtual	H
It fir'd with sense things mere insensual	H
Now with warm baths and odours comforted	F
When he lay down he kindly kiss'd his bed	F
As consecrating it to Hero's right	F
And vow'd thereafter that whatever sight	F
Put him in mind of Hero or her bliss	A
Should be her altar to prefer a kiss	A
Then laid he forth his late enriched arms	A
In whose white circle Love writ all his charms	A
And made his characters sweet Hero's limbs	A
When on his breast's warm sea she sideling swims	A
And as those arms held up in circle met	F
He said 'See sister Hero's carquenet	F
Which she had rather wear about her neck	W
Than all the jewels that do Juno deck '	X
But as he shook with passionate desire	O
To put in flame his other secret fire	O
A music so divine did pierce his ear	Y
As never yet his ravish'd sense did hear	Y
When suddenly a light of twenty hues	A
Brake through the roof and like the rainbow views	A
Amaz'd Leander in whose beams came down	R
The goddess Ceremony with a crown	R
Of all the stars and Heaven with her descended	F
Her flaming hair to her bright feet extended	F
By which hung all the bench of deities	A
And in a chain compact of ears and eyes	A
She led Religion all her body was	A
Clear and transparent as the purest glass	A
For she was all presented to the sense	A
Devotion Order State and Reverence	A
Her shadows were Society Memory	R
All which her sight made live her absence die	F
A rich disparent pentacle she wears	A
Drawn full of circles and strange characters	A
Her face was changeable to every eye	F
One way look'd ill another graciously	R
Which while men view'd they cheerful were and holy	R
But looking off vicious and melancholy	R
The snaky paths to each observed law	H
Did Policy in her broad bosom draw	H
One hand a mathematic crystal sways	A
Which gathering in one line a thousand rays	A
From her bright eyes Confusion burns to death	Z
And all estates of men distinguisheth	Z
By it Morality and Comeliness	A
Themselves in all their sightly figures dress	A
Her other hand a laurel rod applies	A
To beat back Barbarism and Avarice	A
That follow'd eating earth and excrement	F
And human limbs and would make proud ascent	F
To seats of gods were Ceremony slain	R
The Hours and Graces bore her glorious train	R
And all the sweets of our society	R
Were spher'd and treasur'd in her bounteous eye	F
Thus she appear'd and sharply did reprove	D
Leander's bluntness in his violent love	D
Told him how poor was substance without rites	A
Like bills unsign'd desires without delights	A
Like meats unseason'd like rank corn that grows	A
On cottages that none or reaps or sows	A
Not being with civil forms confirm'd and bounded	F
For human dignities and comforts founded	F
But loose and secret all their glories hide	F
Fear fills the chamber Darkness decks the bride	F
She vanish'd leaving pierc'd Leander's heart	F
With sense of his unceremonious part	F
In which with plain neglect of nuptial rites	A
He close and flatly fell to his delights	A
And instantly he vow'd to celebrate	F
All rites pertaining to his married state	F
So up he gets and to his father goes	A
To whose glad ears he doth his vows disclose	A
The nuptials are resolv'd with utmost power	O
And he at night would swim to Hero's tower	O
From whence he meant to Sestos' forked bay	A2
To bring her covertly where ships must stay	A2
Sent by his father throughly rigg'd and mann'd	F
To waft her safely to Abydos' strand	F
There leave we him and with fresh wing pursue	A
Astonish'd Hero whose most wished view	A
I thus long have foreborne because I left her	O
So out of countenance and her spirits bereft her	O
To look on one abash'd is impudence	A
When of slight faults he hath too deep a sense	A
Her blushing het her chamber she look'd out	F
And all the air she purpled round about	F
And after it a foul black day befell	H
Which ever since a red morn doth foretell	H
And still renews our woes for Hero's woe	V
And foul it prov'd because it figur'd so	V
The next night's horror which prepare to hear	Y
I fail if it profane your daintiest ear	Y
Then ho most strangely intellectual fire	O
That proper to my soul hast power t' inspire	Q
Her burning faculties and with the wings	A

George Chapman

Hero And Leander. The Third Sestiad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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