Chaste Florimel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFH IJIJ KLKL FGFG MNMN FOFO| No I'll endure ten thousand deaths | A |
| Ere any further I'll comply | B |
| Oh Sir no man on earth that breathes | C |
| Had ever yet his hand so high | B |
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| Oh take your sword and pierce my heart | D |
| Undaunted see me meet the wound | E |
| Oh will you act a Tarquin's part | D |
| A second Lucrece you have found | E |
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| Thus to the pressing Corydon | F |
| Poor Florimel unhappy maid | G |
| Fearing by love to be undone | F |
| In broken dying accents said | H |
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| Delia who held the conscious door | I |
| Inspired by truth and brandy smiled | J |
| Knowing that sixteen months before | I |
| Our Lucrece had her second child | J |
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| And hark ye Madam cried the bawd | K |
| None of your flights your high rope dodging | L |
| Be civil here or march abroad | K |
| Oblige the 'squire or quit the lodging | L |
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| Oh have I Florimel went on | F |
| Lord what is lost my Delia's aid | G |
| Where shall forsaken virtue run | F |
| If by her friend she is betray'd | G |
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| Oh curse on empty friendship's name | M |
| Lord what is all our future view | N |
| Then dear destroyer of my fame | M |
| Let my last succour be to you | N |
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| From Delia's rage and Fortune's frown | F |
| A wretched lovesick maid deliver | O |
| Oh tip me but another crown | F |
| Dear Sir and make me yours for ever | O |
Matthew Prior
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