To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCCC CDCD ECEC FBFB DGDG| I did not live until this time | A |
| Crown'd my felicity | B |
| When I could say without a crime | A |
| I am not thine but thee | B |
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| This carcass breath'd and walkt and slept | C |
| So that the world believe'd | C |
| There was a soul the motions kept | C |
| But they were all deceiv'd | C |
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| For as a watch by art is wound | C |
| To motion such was mine | D |
| But never had Orinda found | C |
| A soul till she found thine | D |
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| Which now inspires cures and supplies | E |
| And guides my darkened breast | C |
| For thou art all that I can prize | E |
| My joy my life my rest | C |
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| No bridegroom's nor crown conqueror's mirth | F |
| To mine compar'd can be | B |
| They have but pieces of the earth | F |
| I've all the world in thee | B |
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| Then let our flames still light and shine | D |
| And no false fear controul | G |
| As innocent as our design | D |
| Immortal as our soul | G |
Katherine Philips
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