A Paradox Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDDD ABEBEDDD ACDCDFFF FEEEEFGCI | A |
Tis true the beauteous Starre | B |
To which I first did bow | C |
Burnt quicker brighter far | B |
Than that which leads me now | C |
Which shines with more delight | D |
For gazing on that light | D |
So long neere lost my sight | D |
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II | A |
Through foul we follow faire | B |
For had the world one face | E |
And earth been bright as ayre | B |
We had knowne neither place | E |
Indians smell not their neast | D |
A Swisse or Finne tastes best | D |
The spices of the East | D |
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III | A |
So from the glorious Sunne | C |
Who to his height hath got | D |
With what delight we runne | C |
To some black cave or grot | D |
And heav'nly Sydney you | F |
Twice read had rather view | F |
Some odde romance so new | F |
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IV | F |
The god that constant keepes | E |
Unto his deities | E |
Is poore in joyes and sleepes | E |
Imprison'd in the skies | E |
This knew the wisest who | F |
From Juno stole below | G |
To love a bear or cow | C |
Richard Lovelace
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