To A Young Lady, Who Was Fond Of Fortune-telling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGHIIJJKKLL AAMMANOPQRJJCS| You Madam may with safety go | A |
| Decrees of destiny to know | A |
| For at your birth kind planets reign'd | B |
| And certain happiness ordain'd | B |
| Such charms as yours are only given | C |
| To chosen favourites of Heaven | C |
| But such is my uncertain state | D |
| 'Tis dangerous to try my fate | D |
| For I would only know from art | E |
| The future motions of your hert | F |
| And what predestinated doom | G |
| Attends my love for years to come | H |
| No secrets else that mortals learn | I |
| My cares deserve or life concern | I |
| But this will so important be | J |
| I dread to search the dark decree | J |
| For while the smallest hope remains | K |
| Faint joys are mingled with my pains | K |
| Vain distant views my fancy please | L |
| And give some intermitting ease | L |
| But should the stars too plainly show | A |
| That you have doom'd my endless wo | A |
| No human force or art could bear | M |
| The torment of my wild despair | M |
| This secret then I dare not know | A |
| And other truths are useless now | N |
| What matters if unbless'd in love | O |
| How long or short my life will prove | P |
| To gratify what low desire | Q |
| Should I with needless haste inquire | R |
| How great how wealthy I shall be | J |
| Oh what is wealth or power to me | J |
| If I am happy or undone | C |
| It must proceed from you alone | S |
Matthew Prior
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