To The Queen At Oxford Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGHHIIJJKKLLMM FFFFNNNNOPGGFFFFQQRR FFSSTUVVFF| Great Lady That thus quite against our use | A |
| We speak your welcome by an English Muse | B |
| And in a vulgar tongue our zeales contrive | C |
| Is to confess your large prerogative | D |
| Who have the pow'rful freedom to dispense | E |
| With our strict Rules or Customes difference | F |
| Tis fit when such a Star deigns to appeare | G |
| And shine within the Academick Spheare | G |
| That ev'ry Colledge grac't by your resort | H |
| Should onely speak the language of your Court | H |
| As if Apollo's learned Quire but You | I |
| No other Queen of the Ascendent knew | I |
| Let those that list invoke the Delphian name | J |
| To light their verse and quench their doting flame | J |
| In Helicon it were High Treason now | K |
| Did any to a feign'd Minerva bow | K |
| When You are present whose chast vertues stain | L |
| The vaunted glories of her Maiden brain | L |
| I would not flatter May that dyet feed | M |
| Deform'd and vicious soules they onely need | M |
| Such physick who grown sick of their decayes | F |
| Are onely cur'd with surfets of false praise | F |
| Like those who fall'n from Youth or Beauties grace | F |
| Lay colours on which more bely the face | F |
| Be You still what You are a glorious Theme | N |
| For Truth to crown So when that Diademe | N |
| Which circles Your fair brow drops off and time | N |
| Shall lift You to that pitch our prayers climbe | N |
| Posterity will plat a nobler wreath | O |
| To crown Your fame and memory in death | P |
| This is sad truth and plain which I might fear | G |
| Would scarce prove welcome to a Princes ear | G |
| And hardly may you think that Writer wise | F |
| Who preaches there where he should poetize | F |
| Yet where so rich a bank of goodness is | F |
| Triumphs and Feasts admit such thoughts as this | F |
| Nor will your vertue from her Client turn | Q |
| Although he bring his tribute in an urn | Q |
| Enough of this who knowes not when to end | R |
| Needs must by tedious diligence offend | R |
| 'Tis not a Poets office to advance | F |
| The precious value of allegiance | F |
| And least of all the rest do I affect | S |
| To word my duty in this dialect | S |
| My service lies a better way whose tone | T |
| Is spirited by full devotion | U |
| Thus whil'st I mention You Your Royal Mate | V |
| And Those which your blest line perpetuate | V |
| I shall such votes of happiness reherse | F |
| Whose softest accents will out tongue my verse | F |
Henry King
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