Amyntor From Beyond The Sea To Alexis. A Dialogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACB DAEAA FEEF GGGG HAAH IJKI CLLA EEMME ANNA AOOA EPPE QQQQ QAAAQ| Amyntor | A |
| Alexis ah Alexis can it be | B |
| Though so much wet and drie | A |
| Doth drowne our eye | C |
| Thou keep'st thy winged voice from me | B |
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| Alexis | D |
| Amyntor a profounder sea I feare | A |
| Hath swallow'd me where now | E |
| My armes do row | A |
| I floate i'th' ocean of a teare | A |
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| Lucasta weepes lest I look back and tread | F |
| Your Watry land againe | E |
| Amyn I'd through the raine | E |
| Such showrs are quickly over spread | F |
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| Conceive how joy after this short divorce | G |
| Will circle her with beames | G |
| When like your streames | G |
| You shall rowle back with kinder force | G |
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| And call the helping winds to vent your thought | H |
| Alex Amyntor Chloris where | A |
| Or in what sphere | A |
| Say may that glorious fair be sought | H |
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| Amyn She's now the center of these armes e're blest | I |
| Whence may she never move | J |
| Till Time and Love | K |
| Haste to their everlasting rest | I |
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| Alex Ah subtile swaine doth not my flame rise high | C |
| As yours and burne as hot | L |
| Am not I shot | L |
| With the selfe same artillery | A |
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| And can I breath without her air Amyn | E |
| Why then | E |
| From thy tempestuous earth | M |
| Where blood and dearth | M |
| Raigne 'stead of kings agen | E |
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| Wafte thy selfe over and lest storms from far | A |
| Arise bring in our sight | N |
| The seas delight | N |
| Lucasta that bright northerne star | A |
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| Alex But as we cut the rugged deepe I feare | A |
| The green god stops his fell | O |
| Chariot of shell | O |
| And smooths the maine to ravish her | A |
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| Amyn Oh no the prince of waters' fires are done | E |
| He as his empire's old | P |
| And rivers cold | P |
| His queen now runs abed to th' sun | E |
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| But all his treasure he shall ope' that day | Q |
| Tritons shall sound his fleete | Q |
| In silver meete | Q |
| And to her their rich offrings pay | Q |
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| Alex We flye Amyntor not amaz'd how sent | Q |
| By water earth or aire | A |
| Or if with her | A |
| By fire ev'n there | A |
| I move in mine owne element | Q |
Richard Lovelace
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