Against The Love Of Great Ones. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFGHHEE IIJJKKLLEE MNOO PPJJQRSSEETTSSEEUUJJ JJSSVVWXTTJJJ JJUUVnhappy youth betrayd by Fate | A |
To such a love hath sainted hate | A |
And damned those celestiall bands | B |
Are onely knit with equal hands | B |
The love of great ones is a love | C |
Gods are incapable to prove | D |
For where there is a joy uneven | E |
There never never can be Heav'n | E |
'Tis such a love as is not sent | F |
To fiends as yet for punishment | G |
IXION willingly doth feele | H |
The gyre of his eternal wheele | H |
Nor would he now exchange his paine | E |
For cloudes and goddesses againe | E |
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Wouldst thou with tempests lye Then bow | I |
To th' rougher furrows of her brow | I |
Or make a thunder bolt thy choyce | J |
Then catch at her more fatal voyce | J |
Or 'gender with the lightning trye | K |
The subtler flashes of her eye | K |
Poore SEMELE wel knew the same | L |
Who both imbrac't her God and flame | L |
And not alone in soule did burne | E |
But in this love did ashes turne | E |
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How il doth majesty injoy | M |
The bow and gaity oth' boy | N |
As if the purple roabe should sit | O |
And sentence give ith' chayr of wit | O |
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Say ever dying wretch to whom | P |
Each answer is a certaine doom | P |
What is it that you would possesse | J |
The Countes or the naked Besse | J |
Would you her gowne or title do | Q |
Her box or gem the thing or show | R |
If you meane HER the very HER | S |
Abstracted from her caracter | S |
Unhappy boy you may as soone | E |
With fawning wanton with the Moone | E |
Or with an amorous complaint | T |
Get prostitute your very saint | T |
Not that we are not mortal or | S |
Fly VENUS altars and abhor | S |
The selfesame knack for which you pine | E |
But we defend us are divine | E |
Not female but madam born and come | U |
From a right honourable wombe | U |
Shal we then mingle with the base | J |
And bring a silver tinsell race | J |
Whilst th' issue noble wil not passe | J |
The gold alloyd almost halfe brasse | J |
And th' blood in each veine doth appeare | S |
Part thick Booreinn part Lady Cleare | S |
Like to the sordid insects sprung | V |
From Father Sun and Mother Dung | V |
Yet lose we not the hold we have | W |
But faster graspe the trembling slave | X |
Play at baloon with's heart and winde | T |
The strings like scaines steale into his minde | T |
Ten thousand false and feigned joyes | J |
Far worse then they whilst like whipt boys | J |
After this scourge hee's hush with toys | J |
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This heard Sir play stil in her eyes | J |
And be a dying live like flyes | J |
Caught by their angle legs and whom | U |
The torch laughs peece meale to consume | U |
Richard Lovelace
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