The Judgement Of Venus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFH IJIJ KLKM NONP DQDQ RSRS TUVU| When Kneller's works of various grace | A |
| Were to fair Venus shown | B |
| The Goddess spied in every face | A |
| Some features of her own | B |
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| Just so and pointing with her hand | C |
| So shone says she my eyes | D |
| When from two goddesses I gain'd | E |
| An apple for a prize | D |
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| When in the glass and river too | F |
| My face I lately view'd | G |
| Such was I if the glass be true | F |
| If true the crystal flood | H |
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| In colours of this glorious kind | I |
| Apelles painted me | J |
| My hair thus flowing with the wind | I |
| Sprung from my native sea | J |
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| Like this disorder'd wild forlorn | K |
| Big with ten thousand fears | L |
| Thee my Adonis did I mourn | K |
| E'en beautiful in tears | M |
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| But viewing Myra placed apart | N |
| I fear says she I fear | O |
| Appelles that Sir Godfrey's art | N |
| Has far surpass'd thine here | P |
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| Or I a goddess of the skies | D |
| By Mary am undone | Q |
| And must resign to her the prize | D |
| The apple which I won | Q |
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| But soon as she had Myra seen | R |
| Majestically fair | S |
| The sparkling eye the look serene | R |
| The gay and easy air | S |
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| With fiery emulation fill'd | T |
| The wondering goddess cried | U |
| Apelles must to Kneller yield | V |
| Or Venus must to Hyde | U |
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