A Song. Fair, Sweet And Young, Receive A Prize Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDD EEFGHH IJKKLL| A | |
| Fair sweet and young receive a prize | B |
| Reserved for your victorious eyes | B |
| From crowds whom at your feet you see | C |
| O pity and distinguish me | C |
| As I from thousand beauties more | D |
| Distinguish you and only you adore | D |
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| Your face for conquest was design'd | E |
| Your every motion charms my mind | E |
| Angels when you your silence break | F |
| Forget their hymns to hear you speak | G |
| But when at once they hear and view | H |
| Are loth to mount and long to stay with you | H |
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| No graces can your form improve | I |
| But all are lost unless you love | J |
| While that sweet passion you disdain | K |
| Your veil and beauty are in vain | K |
| In pity then prevent my fate | L |
| For after dying all reprieve's too late | L |
John Dryden
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