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