To His Valentine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABACCC DCDCDEEC FEFEGCCE HAHAHFFA HFHFHFFF HCHCIFFC HHHHHHHH AJAJAKKJ CHCHCHHH

Muse bid the Morne awakeA
Sad Winter now declinesB
Each Bird doth chuse a MakeA
This day 's Saint VALENTINE'SB
For that good Bishop's sakeA
Get vp and let vs seeC
What Beautie it shall beeC
That Fortune vs assignesC
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But lo in happy How'rD
The place wherein she lyesC
In yonder climbing Tow'rD
Gilt by the glitt'ring RiseC
O IOVE that in a Show'rD
As once that Thund'rer didE
When he in drops lay hidE
That I could her surprizeC
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Her Canopie Ile drawF
With spangled Plumes bedightE
No Mortall euer sawF
So rauishing a sightE
That it the Gods might aweG
And pow'rfully trans pierceC
The Globie VniuerseC
Out shooting eu'ry LightE
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My Lips Ile softly layH
Vpon her heau'nly CheekeA
Dy'd like the dawning DayH
As polish'd Iuorie sleekeA
And in her Eare Ile sayH
O thou bright Morning StarreF
'Tis I that come so farreF
My Valentine to seekeA
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Each little Bird this TydeH
Doth chuse her loued PheereF
Which constantly abideH
In Wedlock all the yeereF
As Nature is their GuideH
So may we two be trueF
This yeere nor change for newF
As Turtles coupled wereF
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The Sparrow Swan the DoueH
Though VENVS Birds they beC
Yet are they not for LoueH
So absolute as weC
For Reason vs doth moueI
They but by billing wooF
Then try what we can dooF
To whom each sense is freeC
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Which we haue more then theyH
By liuelyer Organs sway'dH
Our Appetite each wayH
More by our Sense obay'dH
Our Passions to displayH
This Season vs doth fitH
Then let vs follow itH
As Nature vs doth leadH
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One Kisse in two let's breakeA
Confounded with the touchJ
But halfe words let vs speakeA
Our Lip's imploy'd so muchJ
Vntill we both grow weakeA
With sweetnesse of thy breathK
O smother me to deathK
Long let our Ioyes be suchJ
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Let's laugh at them that chuseC
Their Valentines by lotH
To weare their Names that vseC
Whom idly they haue gotH
Such poore choise we refuseC
Saint VALENTINE befriendH
We thus this Morne may spendH
Else Muse awake her notH

Michael Drayton



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