A Footnote To A Famous Lyric Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLN OPOP QRSR TUTU| TRUE love s own talisman which here | A |
| Shakespeare and Sidney failed to teach | B |
| A steel and velvet Cavalier | C |
| Gave to our Saxon speech | B |
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| Chief miracle of theme and touch | D |
| That upstart enviers adore | E |
| I could not love thee dear so much | D |
| Loved I not Honour more | E |
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| No critic born since Charles was king | F |
| But sighed in smiling as he read | G |
| Here s theft of the supremest thing | F |
| A poet might have said | G |
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| Young knight and wit and beau who won | H |
| Mid war s adventure ladies praise | I |
| Was t well of you ere you had done | H |
| To blight our modern bays | I |
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| O yet to you whose random hand | J |
| Struck from the dark whole gems like these | K |
| Archaic beauty never planned | J |
| Nor reared by wan degrees | K |
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| Which leaves an artist poor and art | L |
| An earldom richer all her years | M |
| To you dead on your shield apart | L |
| Be Ave passed in tears | N |
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| How shall this singing era spurn | O |
| Her master and in lauds be loath | P |
| Your worth your work bid us discern | O |
| Light exquisite in both | P |
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| T was virtue s breath inflamed your lyre | Q |
| Heroic from the heart it ran | R |
| Nor for the shedding of such fire | S |
| Lives since a manlier man | R |
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| And till your strophe sweet and bold | T |
| So lovely aye so lonely long | U |
| Love s self outdo dear Lovelace hold | T |
| The pinnacles of song | U |
Louise Imogen Guiney
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