A Black Patch On Lucasta's Face Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDDDEEFFGHGIIJKI LMM| Dull as I was to think that a court fly | A |
| Presum'd so neer her eye | A |
| When 'twas th' industrious bee | B |
| Mistook her glorious face for paradise | C |
| To summe up all his chymistry of spice | C |
| With a brave pride and honour led | D |
| Neer both her suns he makes his bed | D |
| And though a spark struggles to rise as red | D |
| Then aemulates the gay | E |
| Daughter of day | E |
| Acts the romantick phoenix' fate | F |
| When now with all his sweets lay'd out in state | F |
| LUCASTA scatters but one heat | G |
| And all the aromatick pills do sweat | H |
| And gums calcin'd themselves to powder beat | G |
| Which a fresh gale of air | I |
| Conveys into her hair | I |
| Then chaft he's set on fire | J |
| And in these holy flames doth glad expire | K |
| And that black marble tablet there | I |
| So neer her either sphere | L |
| Was plac'd nor foyl nor ornament | M |
| But the sweet little bee's large monument | M |
Richard Lovelace
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