Astrophel And Stella - Tenth Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDBEEB AABFFB BBGBBG HHGCCG BBCEBC CCIJJI CCGBBG| O deare Life when shall it bee | A |
| That mine eyes thine eyes shall see | A |
| And in them thy mind discouer | B |
| Whether absence haue had force | C |
| thy remembrance to diuorce | C |
| From the image of thy louer | B |
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| Or if I my self find not | D |
| After parting aught forgot | D |
| Nor debar'd from Beauties treasure | B |
| Let not tongue aspire to tell | E |
| In what high ioyes I shall dwell | E |
| Only thought aymes at the pleasure | B |
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| Thought therefore I will send thee | A |
| To take vp the place for me | A |
| Long I will not after tary | B |
| There vnseene thou mayst be bold | F |
| Those faire wonders to behold | F |
| Which in them my hopes do cary | B |
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| Thought see thou no place forbeare | B |
| Enter brauely euerywhere | B |
| Seize on all to her belonging | G |
| But if thou wouldst garded be | B |
| Fearing her beames take with thee | B |
| Strength of liking rage of longing | G |
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| Thinke of that most gratefull time | H |
| When my leaping heart will climb | H |
| In thy lips to haue his biding | G |
| There those roses for to kisse | C |
| Which do breathe a sugred blisse | C |
| Opening rubies pearles diuiding | G |
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| Thinke of my most princely pow'r | B |
| Which I blessed shall deuow'r | B |
| With my greedy licorous sences | C |
| Beauty musicke sweetnesse loue | E |
| While she doth against me proue | B |
| Her strong darts but weake defences | C |
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| Thinke thinke of those dalyings | C |
| When with doue like murmurings | C |
| With glad moning passed anguish | I |
| We change eyes and hart for hart | J |
| Each to other do depart | J |
| Ioying till ioy makes vs languish | I |
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| O my Thoughts my Thoughts surcease | C |
| Thy delights my woes increse | C |
| My life melts with too much thinking | G |
| Thinke no more but die in me | B |
| Till thou shalt reuiued be | B |
| At her lips my Nectar drinking | G |
Philip Sidney (sir)
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