Vpon The Noble Lady Astons Departure For Spaine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBBDDDDEEBBAFGG HHBBIIBBBBJJDDBBBBKK LLMMHAHHHHNNLLLLJJBB BBDDBBBBLLJJLLLLKKKK BBKKLLJJJJLLBBJJKKJJ BB| I many a time haue greatly marueil'd why | A |
| Men say their friends depart when as they die | A |
| How well that word a dying doth expresse | B |
| I did not know I freely must confesse | B |
| Till her departure for whose missed sight | C |
| I am enforc'd this Elegy to write | C |
| But since resistlesse fate will haue it so | B |
| That she from hence must to Iberia goe | B |
| And my weak wishes can her not detaine | D |
| I will of heauen in policy complaine | D |
| That it so long her trauell should adiourne | D |
| Hoping thereby to hasten her returne | D |
| Can those of Norway for their wage procure | E |
| By their blacke spells a winde that shall endure | E |
| Till from aboard the wished land men see | B |
| And fetch the harbour where they long to be | B |
| Can they by charmes doe this and cannot I | A |
| Who am the Priest of Phoebus and so hie | F |
| Sit in his fauour winne the Poets god | G |
| To send swift Hermes with his snaky rod | G |
| To olus Caue commanding him with care | H |
| His prosperous winds that he for her prepare | H |
| And from that howre wherein shee takes the seas | B |
| Nature bring on the quiet Halcion dayes | B |
| And in that hower that bird begin her nest | I |
| Nay at that very instant that long rest | I |
| May seize on Neptune who may still repose | B |
| And let that bird nere till that hower disclose | B |
| Wherein she landeth and for all that space | B |
| Be not a wrinkle seene on Thetis face | B |
| Onely so much breath with a gentle gale | J |
| As by the easy swelling of her saile | J |
| May at Sebastians safely set her downe | D |
| Where with her goodnes she may blesse the towne | D |
| If heauen in iustice would haue plagu'd by thee | B |
| Some Pirate and grimme Neptune thou should'st be | B |
| His Executioner or what is his worse | B |
| The gripple Merchant borne to be the curse | B |
| Of this braue Iland let them for her sake | K |
| Who to thy safeguard doth her selfe betake | K |
| Escape vndrown'd vnwrackt nay rather let | L |
| Them be at ease in some safe harbour set | L |
| Where with much profit they may vent their wealth | M |
| That they haue got by villany and stealth | M |
| Rather great Neptune then when thou dost raue | H |
| Thou once shouldst wet her saile but with a waue | A |
| Or if some proling Rouer shall but dare | H |
| To seize the ship wherein she is to fare | H |
| Let the fell fishes of the Maine appeare | H |
| And tell those Sea thiefes that once such they were | H |
| As they are now till they assaid to rape | N |
| Grape crowned Bacchus in a striplings shape | N |
| That came aboard them and would faine haue saild | L |
| To vine spread Naxus but that him they faild | L |
| Which he perceiuing them so monstrous made | L |
| And warnd them how they passengers inuade | L |
| Ye South and Westerne winds now cease to blow | J |
| Autumne is come there be no flowers to grow | J |
| Yea from that place respire to which she goes | B |
| And to her sailes should show your selfe but foes | B |
| But Boreas and yee Esterne windes arise | B |
| To send her soon to Spaine but be precise | B |
| That in your aide you seeme not still so sterne | D |
| As we a summer should no more discerne | D |
| For till that here againe I may her see | B |
| It will be winter all the yeare with mee | B |
| Ye swanne begotten lonely brother stars | B |
| So oft auspicious to poore Mariners | B |
| Ye twin bred lights of louely Leda's brood | L |
| Ioues egge borne issue smile vpon the flood | L |
| And in your mild'st aspect doe ye appeare | J |
| To be her warrant from all future feare | J |
| And if thou ship that bear'st her doe proue good | L |
| May neuer time by wormes consume thy wood | L |
| Nor rust thy iron may thy tacklings last | L |
| Till they for reliques be in temples plac't | L |
| Maist thou be ranged with that mighty Arke | K |
| Wherein iust Noah did all the world imbarque | K |
| With that which after Troyes so famous wracke | K |
| From ten yeares trauell brought Vlisses backe | K |
| That Argo which to Colchos went from Greece | B |
| And in her botome brought the goulden fleece | B |
| Vnder braue Iason or that same of Drake | K |
| Wherein he did his famous voyage make | K |
| About the world or Candishes that went | L |
| As far as his about the Continent | L |
| And yee milde winds that now I doe implore | J |
| Not once to raise the least sand on the shore | J |
| Nor once on forfait of your selues respire | J |
| When once the time is come of her retire | J |
| If then it please you but to doe your due | L |
| What for these windes I did Ile doe for you | L |
| Ile wooe you then and if that not suffice | B |
| My pen shall prooue you to haue dietyes | B |
| Ile sing your loues in verses that shall flow | J |
| And tell the storyes of your weale and woe | J |
| Ile prooue what profit to the earth you bring | K |
| And how t'is you that welcome in the spring | K |
| Ile raise vp altars to you as to show | J |
| The time shall be kept holy when you blow | J |
| O blessed winds your will that it may be | B |
| To send health to her and her home to me | B |
Michael Drayton
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