Ode 8 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCC AAADDA EEFEEF EEGCCH IICAAC EEFJJK EECCCC EEJAAJ CCEEEESinge wee the Rose | A |
Then which no flower there growes | A |
Is sweeter | B |
And aptly her compare | C |
With what in that is rare | C |
A parallel none meeter | C |
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Or made poses | A |
Of this that incloses | A |
Suche blisses | A |
That naturally flusheth | D |
As she blusheth | D |
When she is robd of kisses | A |
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Or if strew'd | E |
When with the morning dew'd | E |
Or stilling | F |
Or howe to sense expos'd | E |
All which in her inclos'd | E |
Ech place with sweetnes filling | F |
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That most renown'd | E |
By Nature richly crownd | E |
With yellow | G |
Of that delitious layre | C |
And as pure her hayre | C |
Vnto the same the fellowe | H |
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Fearing of harme | I |
Nature that flower doth arme | I |
From danger | C |
The touch giues her offence | A |
But with reuerence | A |
Vnto her selfe a stranger | C |
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That redde or white | E |
Or mixt the sence delyte | E |
Behoulding | F |
In her complexion | J |
All which perfection | J |
Such harmony infouldinge | K |
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That deuyded | E |
Ere it was descided | E |
Which most pure | C |
Began the greeuous war | C |
Of York and Lancaster | C |
That did many yeeres indure | C |
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Conflicts as greate | E |
As were in all that heate | E |
I sustaine | J |
By her as many harts | A |
As men on either parts | A |
That with her eies hath slaine | J |
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The Primrose flower | C |
The first of Flora's bower | C |
Is placed | E |
Soo is shee first as best | E |
Though excellent the rest | E |
All gracing by none graced | E |
Michael Drayton
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