Louisa[1] To Strephon. 1724 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLLBBMMNNOOPPQRSSTT UUVVAh Strephon how can you despise | A |
Her who without thy pity dies | A |
To Strephon I have still been true | B |
And of as noble blood as you | B |
Fair issue of the genial bed | C |
A virgin in thy bosom bred | C |
Embraced thee closer than a wife | D |
When thee I leave I leave my life | D |
Why should my shepherd take amiss | E |
That oft I wake thee with a kiss | E |
Yet you of every kiss complain | F |
Ah is not love a pleasing pain | F |
A pain which every happy night | G |
You cure with ease and with delight | G |
With pleasure as the poet sings | H |
Too great for mortals less than kings | H |
Chloe when on thy breast I lie | I |
Observes me with revengeful eye | I |
If Chloe o'er thy heart prevails | J |
She'll tear me with her desperate nails | J |
And with relentless hands destroy | K |
The tender pledges of our joy | K |
Nor have I bred a spurious race | L |
They all were born from thy embrace | L |
Consider Strephon what you do | B |
For should I die for love of you | B |
I'll haunt thy dreams a bloodless ghost | M |
And all my kin a numerous host | M |
Who down direct our lineage bring | N |
From victors o'er the Memphian king | N |
Renown'd in sieges and campaigns | O |
Who never fled the bloody plains | O |
Who in tempestuous seas can sport | P |
And scorn the pleasures of a court | P |
From whom great Sylla found his doom | Q |
Who scourged to death that scourge of Rome | R |
Shall on thee take a vengeance dire | S |
Thou like Alcides shalt expire | S |
When his envenom'd shirt he wore | T |
And skin and flesh in pieces tore | T |
Nor less that shirt my rival's gift | U |
Cut from the piece that made her shift | U |
Shall in thy dearest blood be dyed | V |
And make thee tear thy tainted hide | V |
Jonathan Swift
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