An Anniversary On The Hymeneals Of My Noble Kinsman, Tho. S Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDEEBB ABBFFCCCBB ABBCCGGGHH BIIJJKKKCC| I | A |
| The day is curl'd about agen | B |
| To view the splendor she was in | B |
| When first with hallow'd hands | C |
| The holy man knit the mysterious bands | C |
| When you two your contracted souls did move | D |
| Like cherubims above | E |
| And did make love | E |
| As your un understanding issue now | B |
| In a glad sigh a smile a tear a vow | B |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Tell me O self reviving Sun | B |
| In thy perigrination | B |
| Hast thou beheld a pair | F |
| Twist their soft beams like these in their chast air | F |
| As from bright numberlesse imbracing rayes | C |
| Are sprung th' industrious dayes | C |
| So when they gaze | C |
| And change their fertile eyes with the new morn | B |
| A beauteous offspring is shot forth not born | B |
| - | |
| III | A |
| Be witness then all seeing Sun | B |
| Old spy thou that thy race hast run | B |
| In full five thousand rings | C |
| To thee were ever purer offerings | C |
| Sent on the wings of Faith and thou O Night | G |
| Curtain of their delight | G |
| By these made bright | G |
| Have you not mark'd their coelestial play | H |
| And no more peek'd the gayeties of day | H |
| - | |
| IV | B |
| Come then pale virgins roses strow | I |
| Mingled with Ios as you go | I |
| The snowy ox is kill'd | J |
| The fane with pros'lyte lads and lasses fill'd | J |
| You too may hope the same seraphic joy | K |
| Old time cannot destroy | K |
| Nor fulnesse cloy | K |
| When like these you shall stamp by sympathies | C |
| Thousands of new born loves with your chaste eyes | C |
Richard Lovelace
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