L'amitie: To Mrs. M. Awbrey. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFGHHDDIIJJKK II| Soule of my soule my Joy my crown my friend | A |
| A name which all the rest doth comprehend | A |
| How happy are we now whose sols are grown | B |
| By an incomparable mixture One | C |
| Whose well acquainted minds are not as neare | D |
| As Love or vows or secrets can endeare | D |
| I have no thought but what's to thee reveal'd | E |
| Nor thou desire that is from me conceal'd | E |
| Thy heart locks up my secrets richly set | F |
| And my breast is thy private cabinet | G |
| Thou shedst no teare but what but what my moisture lent | H |
| And if I sigh it is thy breath is spent | H |
| United thus what horrour can appeare | D |
| Worthy our sorrow anger or our feare | D |
| Let the dull world alone to talk and fight | I |
| And with their vast ambitions nature fright | I |
| Let them despise so innocent a flame | J |
| While Envy pride and faction play their game | J |
| But we by Love sublim'd so high shall rise | K |
| To pitty Kings and Conquerours despise | K |
| Since we that sacred union have engrost | I |
| Which they and all the sullen world have lost | I |
Katherine Philips
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation