Song To A Fair Young Lady Going Out Of Town In The Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD BEBEFF GHGHII JKLKMMAsk not the cause why sullen spring | A |
So long delays her flow'rs to bear | B |
Why warbling birds forget to sing | A |
And winter storms invert the year | C |
Chloris is gone and Fate provides | D |
To make it spring where she resides | D |
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Chloris is gone the cruel fair | B |
She cast not back a pitying eye | E |
But left her lover in despair | B |
To sigh to languish and to die | E |
Ah how can those fair eyes endure | F |
To give the wounds they will not cure | F |
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Great god of Love why hast thou made | G |
A face that can all hearts command | H |
That all religions can invade | G |
And change the laws of ev'ry land | H |
Where thou hadst plac'd such pow'r before | I |
Thou shouldst have made her mercy more | I |
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When Chloris to the temple comes | J |
Adoring crowds before her fall | K |
She can restore the dead from tombs | L |
And ev'ry life but mine recall | K |
I only am by love design'd | M |
To be the victim for mankind | M |
John Dryden
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