To His Valentine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACCC DCDCDEEC FEFEGCCE HAHAHFFA HFHFHFFF HCHCIFFC HHHHHHHH AJAJAKKJ CHCHCHHHMuse bid the Morne awake | A |
Sad Winter now declines | B |
Each Bird doth chuse a Make | A |
This day 's Saint VALENTINE'S | B |
For that good Bishop's sake | A |
Get vp and let vs see | C |
What Beautie it shall bee | C |
That Fortune vs assignes | C |
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But lo in happy How'r | D |
The place wherein she lyes | C |
In yonder climbing Tow'r | D |
Gilt by the glitt'ring Rise | C |
O IOVE that in a Show'r | D |
As once that Thund'rer did | E |
When he in drops lay hid | E |
That I could her surprize | C |
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Her Canopie Ile draw | F |
With spangled Plumes bedight | E |
No Mortall euer saw | F |
So rauishing a sight | E |
That it the Gods might awe | G |
And pow'rfully trans pierce | C |
The Globie Vniuerse | C |
Out shooting eu'ry Light | E |
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My Lips Ile softly lay | H |
Vpon her heau'nly Cheeke | A |
Dy'd like the dawning Day | H |
As polish'd Iuorie sleeke | A |
And in her Eare Ile say | H |
O thou bright Morning Starre | F |
'Tis I that come so farre | F |
My Valentine to seeke | A |
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Each little Bird this Tyde | H |
Doth chuse her loued Pheere | F |
Which constantly abide | H |
In Wedlock all the yeere | F |
As Nature is their Guide | H |
So may we two be true | F |
This yeere nor change for new | F |
As Turtles coupled were | F |
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The Sparrow Swan the Doue | H |
Though VENVS Birds they be | C |
Yet are they not for Loue | H |
So absolute as we | C |
For Reason vs doth moue | I |
They but by billing woo | F |
Then try what we can doo | F |
To whom each sense is free | C |
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Which we haue more then they | H |
By liuelyer Organs sway'd | H |
Our Appetite each way | H |
More by our Sense obay'd | H |
Our Passions to display | H |
This Season vs doth fit | H |
Then let vs follow it | H |
As Nature vs doth lead | H |
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One Kisse in two let's breake | A |
Confounded with the touch | J |
But halfe words let vs speake | A |
Our Lip's imploy'd so much | J |
Vntill we both grow weake | A |
With sweetnesse of thy breath | K |
O smother me to death | K |
Long let our Ioyes be such | J |
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Let's laugh at them that chuse | C |
Their Valentines by lot | H |
To weare their Names that vse | C |
Whom idly they haue got | H |
Such poore choise we refuse | C |
Saint VALENTINE befriend | H |
We thus this Morne may spend | H |
Else Muse awake her not | H |
Michael Drayton
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