Rose And Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEECCDD FFGGHH IJIJDJDCDCDC CCJJKKDDLLDDMMI scorn the man who builds his fame | A |
On ruins of another's name | A |
As prudes who prudishly declare | B |
They by a sister scandaled are | C |
As scribblers covetous of praise | D |
By slandering snatch themselves the bays | D |
Beauties and bards alike are prone | E |
To snatch at honours not their own | E |
As Lesbia listens all the whister | C |
To hear some scandal of a sister | C |
How can soft souls which sigh for sueings | D |
Rejoice at one another's ruins | D |
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As in the merry month of May | F |
A bard enjoyed the break of day | F |
And quaffed the fragrant scents ascending | G |
He plucked a blossomed rose transcending | G |
All blossoms else it moved his tongue | H |
To rhapsodize and thus he sung | H |
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Go rose and lie | I |
On Chlo 's bosom and be there caressed | J |
For there would I | I |
Like to a turtle dove aye flee to nest | J |
From jealousy | D |
And carking care by which I am opprest | J |
There lie repose | D |
Upon a bosom fragrant and as fair | C |
Nor rival those | D |
Beauties ethereal you discover there | C |
For wherefore rose | D |
Should you as I be subject to despair | C |
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Spare your comparisons oh spare | C |
Of me and fragrancy and fair | C |
A Maiden blush which heard him said | J |
With face unwontedly flushed red | J |
Tell me for what committed wrong | K |
Am I the metaphor of song | K |
I would you could write rhymes without me | D |
Nor in your ecstacies so flout me | D |
In every ditty must we bloom | L |
Can't you find elsewhere some perfume | L |
Oh does it add to Chlo 's sweetness | D |
To visit and compare my meetness | D |
And to enhance her face must mine | M |
Be made to wither peak and pine | M |
John Gay
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