On The Lady Elizabeth, And Count Palatine Being Married On St. Valentine's Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCDDCEEFFEE BBBBBGGBBBHDEE EEIFJKKJIIBBEE| Hail Bishop Valentine whose day this is | A |
| All the air is thy Diocese | B |
| And all the chirping choristers | B |
| And other birds are thy parishioners | B |
| Thou marryest ever year | C |
| The lyric Lark and the grave whispering Dove | D |
| The Sparrow that neglects his life for love | D |
| The household bird with the red stomacher | C |
| Thou maks't the black bird speed as soon | E |
| As doth the Goldfinch or the Halycon | E |
| The husband cock looks out and straight is sped | F |
| And meets his wife which brings her feather bed | F |
| This day more cheerfully than ever shine | E |
| This day which might enflame thy self old Valentine | E |
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| Till now thou warmd'st with mutiplying loves | B |
| Two larks two sparrows or two doves | B |
| All that is nothing unto this | B |
| For thou this day couplest two Phoenixes | B |
| Thou mak'st a Taper see | B |
| What the sun never saw and what the Ark | G |
| Which was of fowls and beasts the cage and park | G |
| Did not contain one bed contains through thee | B |
| Two Phoenixes whose joined breasts | B |
| Are unto one another mutual nests | B |
| Where motion kindles such fires as shall give | H |
| Young Phoenixes and yet the old shall love | D |
| Whose love and courage never shall decline | E |
| But make the whole year through thy day O Valentine | E |
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| Up then fair Phoenix bride frustrate the Sun | E |
| Thy self from thine affection | E |
| Takest warmth enough and from thine eye | I |
| All lesser birds will take their jollity | F |
| Up up fair bride and call | J |
| Thy stars from out their several boxes take | K |
| Thy rubies pearls and diamonds forth and make | K |
| Thy self a constellation of them all | J |
| And by their blazing signify | I |
| That a Great Princess falls but doth not die | I |
| Be thou a new star that to us portends | B |
| Ends of much wonder and be thou those ends | B |
| Since thou dost this day in new glory shine | E |
| May all men date records from this thy Valentine | E |
John Donne
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