An Ode : While From Our Looks, Fair Nymph, You Guess Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF DHDH| While from our looks fair nymph you guess | A |
| The secret passions of our mind | B |
| My heavy eyes you say confess | A |
| A heart to love and grief inclined | B |
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| There needs alas but little art | C |
| To have this fatal secret found | D |
| With the same ease you threw the dart | C |
| 'Tis certain you can show the wound | D |
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| How can I see you and not love | E |
| While you as opening cast are fair | F |
| While cold as northern blasts you prove | G |
| How can I love and not despair | F |
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| The wretch in double fetters bound | D |
| Your potent mercy may release | H |
| Soon if my love but once were crown'd | D |
| Fair prophetess my grief would cease | H |
Matthew Prior
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