To The New Yeere Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD BBECCE FFGHHG HHICCI FFICCI GGGIIG HHJGGJ GGHCCH EEHHHH HHGHHG HHEGGE CCGCCG KKLGGM MMHHHHRich Statue double faced | A |
With Marble Temples graced | A |
To rayse thy God head hyer | B |
In flames where Altars shining | C |
Before thy Priests diuining | C |
Doe od'rous Fumes expire | D |
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Great IANVS I thy pleasure | B |
With all the Thespian treasure | B |
Doe seriously pursue | E |
To th' passed yeere returning | C |
As though the old adiourning | C |
Yet bringing in the new | E |
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Thy ancient Vigils yeerely | F |
I haue obserued cleerely | F |
Thy Feasts yet smoaking bee | G |
Since all thy store abroad is | H |
Giue something to my Goddesse | H |
As hath been vs'd by thee | G |
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Giue her th' Eoan brightnesse | H |
Wing'd with that subtill lightnesse | H |
That doth trans pierce the Ayre | I |
The Roses of the Morning | C |
The rising Heau'n adorning | C |
To mesh with flames of Hayre | I |
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Those ceaselesse Sounds aboue all | F |
Made by those Orbes that moue all | F |
And euer swelling there | I |
Wrap'd vp in Numbers flowing | C |
Them actually bestowing | C |
For Iewels at her Eare | I |
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O Rapture great and holy | G |
Doe thou transport me wholly | G |
So well her forme to vary | G |
That I aloft may beare her | I |
Whereas I will insphere her | I |
In Regions high and starry | G |
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And in my choise Composures | H |
The soft and easie Closures | H |
So amorously shall meet | J |
That euery liuely Ceasure | G |
Shall tread a perfect Measure | G |
Set on so equall feet | J |
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That Spray to fame so fertle | G |
The Louer crowning Mirtle | G |
In Wreaths of mixed Bowes | H |
Within whose shades are dwelling | C |
Those Beauties most excelling | C |
Inthron'd vpon her Browes | H |
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Those Paralels so euen | E |
Drawne on the face of Heauen | E |
That curious Art supposes | H |
Direct those Gems whose cleerenesse | H |
Farre off amaze by neerenesse | H |
Each Globe such fire incloses | H |
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Her Bosome full of Blisses | H |
By Nature made for Kisses | H |
So pure and wond'rous cleere | G |
Whereas a thousand Graces | H |
Behold their louely Faces | H |
As they are bathing there | G |
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O thou selfe little blindnesse | H |
The kindnesse of vnkindnesse | H |
Yet one of those diuine | E |
Thy Brands to me were leuer | G |
Thy Fascia and thy Quiuer | G |
And thou this Quill of mine | E |
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This Heart so freshly bleeding | C |
Vpon it owne selfe feeding | C |
Whose woundes still dropping be | G |
O Loue thy selfe confounding | C |
Her coldnesse so abounding | C |
And yet such heat in me | G |
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Yet if I be inspired | K |
Ile leaue thee so admired | K |
To all that shall succeed | L |
That were they more then many | G |
'Mongst all there is not any | G |
That Time so oft shall read | M |
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Nor Adamant ingraued | M |
That hath been choisely 'st saued | M |
IDEA'S Name out weares | H |
So large a Dower as this is | H |
The greatest often misses | H |
The Diadem that beares | H |
Michael Drayton
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