A Hymne To His Ladies Birth-place Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBCCCCDDBBEEAADD BBBBFGAAHHBBIIJKDDHH DDBBBBBBLLKKMMBBBBNN MBBBKKOO| Couentry that do'st adorne | A |
| The Countrey wherein I was borne | A |
| Yet therein lyes not thy prayse | B |
| Why I should crowne thy Tow'rs with Bayes | B |
| 'Tis not thy Wall me to thee weds | B |
| Thy Ports nor thy proud Pyrameds | B |
| Nor thy Trophies of the Bore | C |
| But that Shee which I adore | C |
| Which scarce Goodnesse selfe can payre | C |
| First their breathing blest thy Ayre | C |
| IDEA in which Name I hide | D |
| Her in my heart Deifi'd | D |
| For what good Man's mind can see | B |
| Onely her IDEAS be | B |
| She in whom the Vertues came | E |
| In Womans shape and tooke her Name | E |
| She so farre past Imitation | A |
| As but Nature our Creation | A |
| Could not alter she had aymed | D |
| More then Woman to haue framed | D |
| She whose truely written Story | B |
| To thy poore Name shall adde more glory | B |
| Then if it should haue beene thy Chance | B |
| T' haue bred our Kings that Conquer'd France | B |
| Had She beene borne the former Age | F |
| That house had beene a Pilgrimage | G |
| And reputed more Diuine | A |
| Then Walsingham or BECKETS Shrine | A |
| That Princesse to whom thou do'st owe | H |
| Thy Freedome whose Cleere blushing snow | H |
| The enuious Sunne saw when as she | B |
| Naked rode to make Thee free | B |
| Was but her Type as to foretell | I |
| Thou should'st bring forth one should excell | I |
| Her Bounty by whom thou should'st haue | J |
| More Honour then she Freedome gaue | K |
| And that great Queene which but of late | D |
| Rul'd this Land in Peace and State | D |
| Had not beene but Heauen had sworne | H |
| A Maide should raigne when she was borne | H |
| Of thy Streets which thou hold'st best | D |
| And most frequent of the rest | D |
| Happy Mich Parke eu'ry yeere | B |
| On the fourth of August there | B |
| Let thy Maides from FLORA'S bowers | B |
| With their Choyce and daintiest flowers | B |
| Decke Thee vp and from their store | B |
| With braue Garlands crowne that dore | B |
| The old Man passing by that way | L |
| To his Sonne in time shall say | L |
| There was that Lady borne which long | K |
| To after Ages shall be sung | K |
| Who vnawares being passed by | M |
| Back to that House shall cast his Eye | M |
| Speaking my Verses as he goes | B |
| And with a Sigh shut eu'ry Close | B |
| Deare Citie trauelling by thee | B |
| When thy rising Spyres I see | B |
| Destined her place of Birth | N |
| Yet me thinkes the very Earth | N |
| Hallowed is so farre as I | M |
| Can thee possibly descry | B |
| Then thou dwelling in this place | B |
| Hearing some rude Hinde disgrace | B |
| Thy Citie with some scuruy thing | K |
| Which some Iester forth did bring | K |
| Speake these Lines where thou do'st come | O |
| And strike the Slaue for euer dumbe | O |
Michael Drayton
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