A Apostacy Of One, And But One Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCBEF ABGAHAHH AIBIBIJJ KJBJBJLL| I | A |
| That frantick errour I adore | B |
| And am confirm'd the earth turns round | C |
| Now satisfied o're and o're | D |
| As rowling waves so flowes the ground | C |
| And as her neighbour reels the shore | B |
| Finde such a woman says she loves | E |
| She's that fixt heav'n which never moves | F |
| - | |
| II | A |
| In marble steele or porphyrie | B |
| Who carves or stampes his armes or face | G |
| Lookes it by rust or storme must dye | A |
| This womans love no time can raze | H |
| Hardned like ice in the sun's eye | A |
| Or your reflection in a glasse | H |
| Which keepes possession though you passe | H |
| - | |
| III | A |
| We not behold a watches hand | I |
| To stir nor plants or flowers to grow | B |
| Must we infer that this doth stand | I |
| And therefore that those do not blow | B |
| This she acts calmer like Heav'ns brand | I |
| The stedfast lightning slow loves dart | J |
| She kils but ere we feele the smart | J |
| - | |
| IV | K |
| Oh she is constant as the winde | J |
| That revels in an ev'nings aire | B |
| Certaine as wayes unto the blinde | J |
| More reall then her flatt'ries are | B |
| Gentle as chaines that honour binde | J |
| More faithfull then an Hebrew Jew | L |
| But as the divel not halfe so true | L |
Richard Lovelace
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