Eclogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBCCDCEEFFGGAAAAA ADHIIAAGGAAHHJJGGGGA CCGGIKGGGGLLMMNOG GGGGBBGGPPQRAAGGBBGC GGGGGGIKGGCCCCGGL SSTUGGBBGGBBAA P V PPCCWWXXGGYG P A AAAAZLGGGGA2G P B SSCCWWGGGGG U G B2B2GGCCC2WGGPG U B2 UUGGGGCCGGAG P K UUSSD2WCCGGUG P W B2B2E2E2PALLOPHANES | A |
UNSEASONABLE man statue of ice | A |
What could to countries solitude entice | A |
Thee in this year's cold and decrepit time | B |
Nature's instinct draws to the warmer clime | B |
Even smaller birds who by that courage dare | C |
In numerous fleets sail through their sea the air | C |
What delicacy can in fields appear | D |
Whilst Flora herself doth a frieze jerkin wear | C |
Whilst winds do all the trees and hedges strip | E |
Of leaves to furnish rods enough to whip | E |
Thy madness from thee and all springs by frost | F |
Have taken cold and their sweet murmurs lost | F |
If thou thy faults or fortunes wouldst lament | G |
With just solemnity do it in Lent | G |
At court the spring already advanced is | A |
The sun stays longer up and yet not his | A |
The glory is far other other fires | A |
First zeal to prince and state then love's desires | A |
Burn in one breast and like heaven's two great lights | A |
The first doth govern days the other nights | A |
And then that early light which did appear | D |
Before the sun and moon created were | H |
The princes favour is diffused o'er all | I |
From which all fortunes names and natures fall | I |
Then from those wombs of stars the bride's bright eyes | A |
At every glance a constellation flies | A |
And sows the court with stars and doth prevent | G |
In light and power the all eyed firmament | G |
First her eyes kindle other ladies' eyes | A |
Then from their beams their jewels' lustres rise | A |
And from their jewels torches do take fire | H |
And all is warmth and light and good desire | H |
Most other courts alas are like to hell | J |
Where in dark places fire without light doth dwell | J |
Or but like stoves for lust and envy get | G |
Continual but artificial heat | G |
Here zeal and love grown one all clouds digest | G |
And make our court an everlasting east | G |
And canst thou be from thence | A |
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IDIOS No I am there | C |
As heaven to men disposed is everywhere | C |
So are those courts whose princes animate | G |
Not only all their house but all their state | G |
Let no man think because he's full he hath all | I |
Kings as their pattern God are liberal | K |
Not only in fullness but capacity | G |
Enlarging narrow men to feel and see | G |
And comprehend the blessings they bestow | G |
So reclused hermits oftentimes do know | G |
More of heaven's glory than a worldling can | L |
As man is of the world the heart of man | L |
Is an epitome of God's great book | M |
Of creatures and man need no farther look | M |
So is the country of courts where sweet peace doth | N |
As their one common soul give life to both | O |
And am I then from court | G |
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ALLOPHANES Dreamer thou art | G |
Think'st thou fantastic that thou hast a part | G |
In the Indian fleet because thou hast | G |
A little spice or amber in thy taste | G |
Because thou art not frozen art thou warm | B |
Seest thou all good because thou seest no harm | B |
The earth doth in her inner bowels hold | G |
Stuff well disposed and which would fain be gold | G |
But never shall except it chance to lie | P |
So upward that heaven gild it with his eye | P |
As for divine things faith comes from above | Q |
So for best civil use all tinctures move | R |
From higher powers from God religion springs | A |
Wisdom and honour from the use of kings | A |
Then unbeguile thyself and know with me | G |
That angels though on earth employ'd they be | G |
Are still in heaven so is he still at home | B |
That doth abroad to honest actions come | B |
Chide thyself then O fool which yesterday | G |
Mightst have read more than all thy books bewray | C |
Hast thou a history which doth present | G |
A court where all affections do assent | G |
Unto the king's and that that king's are just | G |
And where it is no levity to trust | G |
Where there is no ambition but to obey | G |
Where men need whisper nothing and yet may | G |
Where the king's favours are so placed that all | I |
Find that the king therein is liberal | K |
To them in him because his favours bend | G |
To virtue to the which they all pretend | G |
Thou hast no such yet here was this and more | C |
An earnest lover wise then and before | C |
Our little Cupid hath sued livery | C |
And is no more in his minority | C |
He is admitted now into that breast | G |
Where the king's counsels and his secrets rest | G |
What hast thou lost O ignorant man | L |
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IDIOS I knew | S |
All this and only therefore I withdrew | S |
To know and feel all this and not to have | T |
Words to express it makes a man a grave | U |
Of his own thoughts I would not therefore stay | G |
At a great feast having no grace to say | G |
And yet I 'scaped not here for being come | B |
Full of the common joy I utter'd some | B |
Read then this nuptial song which was not made | G |
Either the court or men's hearts to invade | G |
But since I am dead and buried I could frame | B |
No epitaph which might advance my fame | B |
So much as this poor song which testifies | A |
I did unto that day some sacrifice | A |
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I | P |
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THE TIME OF THE MARRIAGE | V |
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Thou art reprieved old year thou shalt not die | P |
Though thou upon thy death bed lie | P |
And should'st within five days expire | C |
Yet thou art rescued by a mightier fire | C |
Than thy old soul the sun | W |
When he doth in his largest circle run | W |
The passage of the west or east would thaw | X |
And open wide their easy liquid jaw | X |
To all our ships could a Promethean art | G |
Either unto the northern pole impart | G |
The fire of these inflaming eyes or of this loving | Y |
heart | G |
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II | P |
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EQUALITY OF PERSONS | A |
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But undiscerning Muse which heart which eyes | A |
In this new couple dost thou prize | A |
When his eye as inflaming is | A |
As hers and her heart loves as well as his | A |
Be tried by beauty and then | Z |
The bridegroom is a maid and not a man | L |
If by that manly courage they be tried | G |
Which scorns unjust opinion then the bride | G |
Becomes a man Should chance or envy's art | G |
Divide these two whom nature scarce did part | G |
Since both have the inflaming eye and both the | A2 |
loving heart | G |
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III | P |
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RAISING OF THE BRIDEGROOM | B |
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Though it be some divorce to think of you | S |
Single so much one are you two | S |
Let me here contemplate thee | C |
First cheerful bridegroom and first let me see | C |
How thou prevent'st the sun | W |
And his red foaming horses dost outrun | W |
How having laid down in thy Sovereign's breast | G |
All businesses from thence to reinvest | G |
Them when these triumphs cease thou forward art | G |
To show to her who doth the like impart | G |
The fire of thy inflaming eyes and of thy loving heart | G |
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IV | U |
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RAISING OF THE BRIDE | G |
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But now to thee fair bride it is some wrong | B2 |
To think thou wert in bed so long | B2 |
Since soon thou liest down first 'tis fit | G |
Thou in first rising shouldst allow for it | G |
Powder thy radiant hair | C |
Which if without such ashes thou wouldst wear | C |
Thou which to all which come to look upon | C2 |
Wert meant for Phoebus wouldst be Pha ton | W |
For our ease give thine eyes th' unusual part | G |
Of joy a tear so quench'd thou mayst impart | G |
To us that come thy inflaming eyes to him thy | P |
loving heart | G |
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V | U |
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HER APPARELLING | B2 |
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Thus thou descend'st to our infirmity | U |
Who can the sun in water see | U |
So dost thou when in silk and gold | G |
Thou cloud'st thyself since we which do behold | G |
Are dust and worms 'tis just | G |
Our objects be the fruits of worms and dust | G |
Let every jewel be a glorious star | C |
Yet stars are not so pure as their spheres are | C |
And though thou stoop to appear to us in part | G |
Still in that picture thou entirely art | G |
Which thy inflaming eyes have made within his | A |
loving heart | G |
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VI | P |
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GOING TO THE CHAPEL | K |
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Now from your easts you issue forth and we | U |
As men which through a cypress see | U |
The rising sun do think it two | S |
So as you go to church do think of you | S |
But that veil being gone | D2 |
By the church rites you are from thenceforth one | W |
The church triumphant made this match before | C |
And now the militant doth strive no more | C |
Then reverend priest who God's Recorder art | G |
Do from his dictates to these two impart | G |
All blessings which are seen or thought by angel's | U |
eye or heart | G |
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VII | P |
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THE BENEDICTION | W |
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Blest pair of swans O may you interbring | B2 |
Daily new joys and never sing | B2 |
Live till all grounds of wishes fail | E2 |
Till honour yea till wisdom grow so stale | E2 |
That new great heights to try | P |
John Donne
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