Elegy Xiv: Julia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAACAAADEFFDDGHHH IIHHJAHHKKHL| Hark news O envy thou shalt hear descried | A |
| My Julia who as yet was ne'er envied | A |
| To vomit gall in slander swell her veins | B |
| With calumny that hell itself disdains | B |
| Is her continual practice does her best | A |
| To tear opinion e'en out of the breast | A |
| Of dearest friends and which is worse than vile | C |
| Sticks jealousy in wedlock her own child | A |
| Scapes not the showers of envy To repeat | A |
| The monstrous fashions how were alive to eat | A |
| Deare reputation would to God she were | D |
| But half so loth to act vice as to hear | E |
| My mild reproof Lived Mantuan now again | F |
| That female Mastix to limn with his pen | F |
| This she Chimera that hath eyes of fire | D |
| Burning with anger anger feeds desire | D |
| Tongued like the night crow whose ill boding cries | G |
| Give out for nothing but new injuries | H |
| Her breath like to the juice in T narus | H |
| That blasts the springs though ne'er so prosperous | H |
| Her hands I know not how used more to spill | I |
| The food of others than herself to fill | I |
| But O her mind that Orcus which includes | H |
| Legions of mischiefs countless multitudes | H |
| Of formless curses projects unmade up | J |
| Abuses yet unfashion'd thoughts corrupt | A |
| Misshapen cavils palpable untroths | H |
| Inevitable errors self accusing loaths | H |
| These like those atoms swarming in the sun | K |
| Throng in her bosom for creation | K |
| I blush to give her halfe her due yet say | H |
| No poison's half so bad as Julia | L |
John Donne
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