Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCD BBBBB BEBFE BGBHG IJIJK LBLBB| A | |
| COme my Lucasia since we see | B |
| That Miracles Mens faith do move | C |
| By wonder and by prodigy | B |
| To the dull angry world let's prove | C |
| There's a Religion in our Love | D |
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| For though we were design'd t' agree | B |
| That Fate no liberty destroyes | B |
| But our Election is as free | B |
| As Angels who with greedy choice | B |
| Are yet determin'd to their joyes | B |
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| Our hearts are doubled by the loss | B |
| Here Mixture is Addition grown | E |
| We both diffuse and both ingross | B |
| And we whose minds are so much one | F |
| Never yet ever are alone | E |
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| We court our own Captivity | B |
| Than Thrones more great and innocent | G |
| 'Twere banishment to be set free | B |
| Since we wear fetters whose intent | H |
| Not Bondage is but Ornament | G |
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| Divided joyes are tedious found | I |
| And griefs united easier grow | J |
| We are our selves but by rebound | I |
| And all our Titles shuffled so | J |
| Both Princes and both Subjects too | K |
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| Our Hearts are mutual Victims laid | L |
| While they such power in Friendship lies | B |
| Are Altars Priests and Off'rings made | L |
| And each Heart which thus kindly dies | B |
| Grows deathless by the Sacrifice | B |
Katherine Philips
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