On His Ladies Waking Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B B A A B B A B B A C C A| My lady woke upon a morning fair | A |
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| What time Apollo's chariot takes the skies | B |
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| And fain to fill with arrows from her eyes | B |
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| His empty quiver Love was standing there | A |
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| I saw two apples that her breast doth bear | A |
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| None such the close of the Hesperides | B |
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| Yields nor hath Venus any such as these | B |
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| Nor she that had of nursling Mars the care | A |
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| Even such a bosom and so fair it was | B |
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| Pure as the perfect work of Phidias | B |
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| That sad Andromeda's discomfiture | A |
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| Left bare when Perseus passed her on a day | C |
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| And pale as Death for fear of Death she lay | C |
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| With breast as marble cold as marble pure | A |
Pierre De Ronsard
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