The Defence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCAADEFEGGAAHHAAGGII JJKJGLAA| Piensan los Enamorados | A |
| Que tienen los otros los oios quebranta dos | A |
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| Why slightest thou what I approve | B |
| Thou art no Peer to try my love | C |
| Nor canst discern where her form lyes | A |
| Unless thou saw'st her with my eyes | A |
| Say she were foul and blacker than | D |
| The Night or Sun burnt African | E |
| If lik't by me tis I alone | F |
| Can make a beauty where was none | E |
| For rated in my fancie she | G |
| Is so as she appears to me | G |
| But tis not feature or a face | A |
| That does my free election grace | A |
| Nor is my liking onely led | H |
| By a well temperd white and red | H |
| Could I enamour'd grow on those | A |
| The Lilly and the blushing Rose | A |
| United in one stalk might be | G |
| As dear unto my thoughts as she | G |
| But I look farther and do find | I |
| A richer beauty in her mind | I |
| Where something is so lasting fair | J |
| As time or age cannot impair | J |
| Had'st thou a perspective so cleere | K |
| Thou could'st behold my object there | J |
| When thou her vertues should'st espy | G |
| Theyl'd force thee to confess that I | L |
| Had cause to like her and learn thence | A |
| To love by judgment not by sence | A |
Henry King
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