Licia Sonnets 01 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGFHH IJIJKLMLNLNOPP| Bright matchless star the honour of the sky | A |
| From whose clear shine heaven's vault hath all his light | B |
| I send these poems to your graceful eye | A |
| Do you but take them and they have their right | B |
| I build besides a temple to your name | C |
| Wherein my thoughts shall daily sing your praise | D |
| And will erect an altar for the same | C |
| Which shall your virtues and your honour raise | D |
| But heaven the temple of your honour is | E |
| Whose brasen tops your worthy self made proud | F |
| The ground an altar base for such a bliss | G |
| With pity torn because I sighed so loud | F |
| And since my skill no worship can impart | H |
| Make you an incense of my loving heart | H |
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| Sad all alone not long I musing sat | I |
| But that my thoughts compelled me to aspire | J |
| A laurel garland in my hand I gat | I |
| So the Muses I approached the nigher | J |
| My suit was this a poet to become | K |
| To drink with them and from the heavens be fed | L |
| Phoebus denied and sware there was no room | M |
| Such to be poets as fond fancy led | L |
| With that I mourned and sat me down to weep | N |
| Venus she smiled and smiling to me said | L |
| Come drink with me and sit thee still and sleep | N |
| This voice I heard and Venus I obeyed | O |
| That poison sweet hath done me all this wrong | P |
| For now of love must needs be all my song | P |
Giles Fletcher The Elder
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