The Passionate Printer To His Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDED FGFG HFHF ICIC JKJK KKKK| Whose name is Amanda | A |
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| With Apologies to the Shade of Christopher Marlowe | B |
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| Come live with me and be my Dear | C |
| And till that happy bond shall lapse | D |
| I'll set your Poutings in Brevier l | E |
| Your Praises in the largest CAPS | D |
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| There's Diamond 'tis for your Eyes | F |
| There's Ruby that will match your Lips | G |
| Pearl for your Teeth and Minion size | F |
| To suit your dainty Finger tips | G |
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| In Nonpareil I'll put your Face | H |
| In Rubric shall your Blushes rise | F |
| There is no Bourgeois in your Case | H |
| Your Form can never need Revise | F |
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| Your Cheek seems Ready for the Press | I |
| Your Laugh as Clarendon is clear | C |
| There's more distinction in your Dress | I |
| Than in the oldest Elzevir | C |
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| So with me live and with me die | J |
| And may no FINIS e'er intrude | K |
| To break into mere Printers' Pie | J |
| The Type of our Beatitude | K |
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| ERRATUM If my suit you flout | K |
| And choose some happier Youth to wed | K |
| 'Tis but to cross AMANDA out | K |
| And read another name instead | K |
Henry Austin Dobson
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