A Nocturnall Upon St. Lucies Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBCCCDD ECCFBBBGH IJKLBBBBB MNOMPQQMM RRRRSSSBB| Being The Shortest Day | A |
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| 'Tis the yeares midnight and it is the dayes | B |
| Lucies who scarce seaven houres herself unmaskes | B |
| The Sunne is spent and now his flasks | B |
| Send forth light squibs no constant rayes | B |
| The worlds whole sap is sunke | C |
| The generall balme th' hydroptique earth hath drunk | C |
| Whither as to the beds feet life is shrunk | C |
| Dead and interr'd yet all these seem to laugh | D |
| Compar'd with mee who am their Epitaph | D |
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| Study me then you who shall lovers bee | E |
| At the next world that is at the next Spring | C |
| For I am every dead thing | C |
| In whom love wrought new Alchimie | F |
| For his art did expresse | B |
| A quintessence even from nothingnesse | B |
| From dull privations and leane emptinesse | B |
| He ruin'd mee and I am re begot | G |
| Of absence darknesse death things which are not | H |
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| All others from all things draw all that's good | I |
| Life soule forme spirit whence they beeing have | J |
| I by loves limbecke am the grave | K |
| Of all that's nothing Oft a flood | L |
| Have wee two wept and so | B |
| Drownd the whole world us two oft did we grow | B |
| To be two Chaosses when we did show | B |
| Care to ought else and often absences | B |
| Withdrew our soules and made us carcasses | B |
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| But I am by her death which word wrongs her | M |
| Of the first nothing the Elixer grown | N |
| Were I a man that I were one | O |
| I needs must know I should preferre | M |
| If I were any beast | P |
| Some ends some means Yea plants yea stones detest | Q |
| And love All all some properties invest | Q |
| If I an ordinary nothing were | M |
| As shadow a light and body must be here | M |
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| But I am None nor will my Sunne renew | R |
| You lovers for whose sake the lesser Sunne | R |
| At this time to the Goat is runne | R |
| To fetch new lust and give it you | R |
| Enjoy your summer all | S |
| Since shee enjoyes her long nights festivall | S |
| Let mee prepare towards her and let mee call | S |
| This houre her Vigill and her Eve since this | B |
| Bothe the yeares and the dayes deep midnight is | B |
John Donne
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