Cupid And Ganymede Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EEFFGHIIFFJJKKKLKK KKGHMMNN OPLLPPFFQQRRKKSSKKJJ FF FFFFPPFFF FFTTPP UUFFVVHH| In Heav'n one Holy day You read | A |
| In wise Anacreon Ganymede | B |
| Drew heedless Cupid in to throw | C |
| A Main to pass an Hour or so | C |
| The little Trojan by the way | D |
| By Hermes taught play'd All the Play | D |
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| The God unhappily engag'd | E |
| By Nature rash by Play enrag'd | E |
| Complain'd and sigh'd and cry'd and fretted | F |
| Lost ev'ry earthly thing He betted | F |
| In ready Mony all the Store | G |
| Pick'd up long since from Danae's Show'r | H |
| A Snush Box set with bleeding Hearts | I |
| Rubies all pierc'd with Diamond Darts | I |
| His Nine pins made of Myrtle Wood | F |
| The Tree in Ida's Forest stood | F |
| His Bowl pure Gold the very same | J |
| Which Paris gave the Cyprian Dame | J |
| Two Table Books in Shagreen Covers | K |
| Fill'd with good Verse from real Lovers | K |
| Merchandise rare A Billet doux | K |
| It's Matter passionate yet true | L |
| Heaps of Hair Rings and cypher'd Seals | K |
| Rich Trifles serious Bagatelles | K |
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| What sad Disorders Play begets | K |
| Desp'rate and mad at length He sets | K |
| Those Darts whose Points make Gods adore | G |
| His Might and deprecate his Pow'r | H |
| Those Darts whence all our Joy and Pain | M |
| Arise those Darts come Seven's the Main | M |
| Cries Ganymede The usual Trick | N |
| Seven slur a Six Eleven A Nick | N |
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| Ill News goes fast 'Twas quickly known | O |
| That simple Cupid was undone | P |
| Swifter than Lightning Venus flew | L |
| Too late She found the thing too true | L |
| Guess how the Goddess greets her Son | P |
| Come hither Sirrah no begon | P |
| And hark Ye is it so indeed | F |
| A Comrade You for Ganymede | F |
| An Imp as wicked for his Age | Q |
| As any earthly Lady's Page | Q |
| A Scandal and a Scourge to Troy | R |
| A Prince's Son A Black guard Boy | R |
| A Sharper that with Box and Dice | K |
| Draws in young Deities to Vice | K |
| All Heav'n is by the Ears together | S |
| Since first That little Rogue came hither | S |
| Juno her self has had no Peace | K |
| And truly I've been favour'd less | K |
| For Jove as Fame reports but Fame | J |
| Says things not fit for Me to name | J |
| Has acted ill for such a God | F |
| And taken Ways extreamly odd | F |
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| And Thou unhappy Child She said | F |
| Her Anger by her Grief allay'd | F |
| Unhappy Child who thus hast lost | F |
| All the Estate We e'er could boast | F |
| Whither O whither wilt Thou run | P |
| Thy Name despis'd thy Weakness known | P |
| Nor shall thy Shrine on Earth be crown'd | F |
| Nor shall thy Pow'r in Heav'n be own'd | F |
| When Thou nor Man nor God can'st wound | F |
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| Obedient Cupid kneeling cry'd | F |
| Cease dearest Mother cease to chide | F |
| Gany's a Cheat and I'm a Bubble | T |
| Yet why this great Excess of Trouble | T |
| The Dice were false the Darts are gone | P |
| Yet how are You or I undone | P |
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| The Loss of These I can supply | U |
| With keener Shafts from Cloe's Eye | U |
| Fear not We e'er can be disgrac'd | F |
| While That bright Magazine shall last | F |
| Your crowded Altars still shall smoke | V |
| And Man your Friendly Aid invoke | V |
| Jove shall again revere your Pow'r | H |
| And rise a Swan or fall a Show'r | H |
Matthew Prior
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