St. Valentines Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIJKL JJMNOOPPQQ| Now that each feather'd Chorister doth sing | A |
| The glad approches of the welcome Spring | A |
| Now Ph bus darts forth his more early beam | B |
| And dips it later in the curled stream | B |
| I should to custome prove a retrograde | C |
| Did I still dote upon my sullen shade | C |
| Oft have the seasons finisht and begun | D |
| Dayes into Months those into years have run | D |
| Since my cross Starres and inauspicious fate | E |
| Doom'd me to linger here without my Mate | E |
| Whose loss ere since befrosting my desire | F |
| Left me an Altar without Gift or Fire | F |
| I therefore could have wisht for your own sake | G |
| That Fortune had design'd a nobler stake | G |
| For you to draw then one whose fading day | H |
| Like to a dedicated Taper lay | H |
| Within a Tomb and long burnt out in vain | I |
| Since nothing there saw better by the flame | J |
| Yet since you like your Chance I must not try | K |
| To marre it through my incapacity | L |
| I here make title to it and proclaime | J |
| How much you honour me to wear my name | J |
| Who can no form of gratitude devise | M |
| But offer up my self your sacrifice | N |
| Hail then my worthy Lot and may each Morn | O |
| Successive springs of joy to you be born | O |
| May your content ne're wane untill my heart | P |
| Grown Bankrupt wants good wishes to impart | P |
| Henceforth I need not make the dust my Shrine | Q |
| Nor search the Grave for my lost Valentine | Q |
Henry King
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