A Retir'd Friendship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBC DEDE BFBF DGDH BIBI JDJD DKDK DLDL MNMN| A | |
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| Come my Ardelia to this bowre | B |
| Where kindly mingling Souls a while | C |
| Let's innocently spend an houre | B |
| And at all serious follys smile | C |
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| Here is no quarrelling for Crowns | D |
| Nor fear of changes in our fate | E |
| No trembling at the Great ones frowns | D |
| Nor any slavery of state | E |
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| Here's no disguise nor treachery | B |
| Nor any deep conceal'd design | F |
| From blood and plots this place is free | B |
| And calm as are those looks of thine | F |
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| Here let us sit and bless our Starres | D |
| Who did such happy quiet give | G |
| As that remov'd from noise of warres | D |
| In one another's hearts we live | H |
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| We should we entertain a feare | B |
| Love cares not how the world is turn'd | I |
| If crouds of dangers should appeare | B |
| Yet friendship can be unconcern'd | I |
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| We weare about us such a charme | J |
| No horrour can be our offence | D |
| For misheif's self can doe no harme | J |
| To friendship and to innocence | D |
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| Let's mark how soone Apollo's beams | D |
| Command the flocks to quit their meat | K |
| And not intreat the neighbour streams | D |
| To quench their thirst but coole their heat | K |
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| In such a scorching Age as this | D |
| Whoever would not seek a shade | L |
| Deserve their happiness to misse | D |
| As having their own peace betray'd | L |
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| But we of one another's mind | M |
| Assur'd the boistrous world disdain | N |
| With quiet souls and unconfin'd | M |
| Enjoy what princes wish in vain | N |
Katherine Philips
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