To Mr. Vaughan, Silurist On His Poems Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEAAFFAAGHAAIIJJ FFKKKKLLMMNNKKKKAA| Had I ador'd the multitude and thence | A |
| Got an antipathy to wit and sence | A |
| And hug'd that fate in hope the world would grant | B |
| 'Twas good affection to be ignorant | C |
| Yet the least ray of thy bright fancy seen | D |
| I had converted or excuseless been | E |
| For each birth of thy muse to after times | A |
| Shall expatiate for all this age's crimes | A |
| First shines the Armoret twice crown'd by thee | F |
| Once by they Love next by Poetry | F |
| Where thou the best of Unions dost dispence | A |
| Truth cloth'd in wit and Love in innocence | A |
| So that the muddyest Lovers may learn here | G |
| No fountains can be sweet that are not clear | H |
| Then Juvenall reviv'd by thee declares | A |
| How flat man's Joys are and how mean his cares | A |
| And generously upbraids the world that they | I |
| Should such a value for their ruine pay | I |
| But when thy sacred muse diverts her quill | J |
| The Lantskip to design of Zion Hill | J |
| As nothing else was worthy her or thee | F |
| So we admire almost t'Idolatry | F |
| What savage brest would not be rapt to find | K |
| Such Jewells insuch Cabinets enshrind' | K |
| Thou fill'd with joys too great to see or count | K |
| Descend'st from thence like Moses from the Mount | K |
| And with a candid yet unquestioned aw | L |
| Restorlst the Golden Age when Verse was Law | L |
| Instructing us thou so secur'st thy fame | M |
| That nothing can distrub it but my name | M |
| Nay I have hoped that standing so near thine | N |
| 'Twill lose its drosse and by degrees refine | N |
| quot Live till the disabused world consent | K |
| All truths of use or strength or ornament | K |
| Are with such harmony by thee displaid | K |
| As the whole world was first by number made | K |
| And from the charming rigour thy Muse brings | A |
| Learn there's no pleasure but in serious things | A |
Katherine Philips
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