To Chloe Jealous Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE BFGF HBHB IBIB BJBK LMNM| Dear Chloe how blubbered is that pretty face | A |
| Thy cheek all on fire and thy hair all uncurled | B |
| Prithee quit this caprice and as old Falstaff says | C |
| Let us e'en talk a little like folks of this world | B |
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| How canst thou presume thou hast leave to destroy | D |
| The beauties which Venus but lent to thy keeping | E |
| Those looks were designed to inspire love and joy | D |
| More ord'nary eyes may serve people for weeping | E |
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| To be vexed at a trifle or two that I writ | B |
| Your judgment at once and my passion you wrong | F |
| You take that for fact which will scarce be found wit mdash | G |
| Odds life must one swear to the truth of a song | F |
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| What I speak my fair Chloe and what I write shows | H |
| The diff'rence there is betwixt nature and art | B |
| I court others in verse but I love thee in prose | H |
| And they have my whimsies but thou hast my heart | B |
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| The god of us verse men you know child the Sun | I |
| How after his journeys he sets up his rest | B |
| If at morning o'er earth 'tis his fancy to run | I |
| At night he reclines on his Thetis's breast | B |
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| So when I am wearied with wand'ring all day | B |
| To thee my delight in the evening I come | J |
| No matter what beauties I saw in my way | B |
| They were but my visits but thou art my home | K |
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| Then finish dear Chloe this pastoral war | L |
| And let us like Horace and Lydia agree | M |
| For thou art a girl as much brighter than her | N |
| As he was a poet sublimer than me | M |
Matthew Prior
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