Cupid Far Gone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEE AFFGGHH ACDIIJJ BHHHHKK BHHBBLL| I | A |
| What so beyond all madnesse is the elf | B |
| Now he hath got out of himself | B |
| His fatal enemy the Bee | C |
| Nor his deceiv'd artillerie | D |
| His shackles nor the roses bough | E |
| Ne'r half so netled him as he is now | E |
| - | |
| II | A |
| See at's own mother he is offering | F |
| His finger now fits any ring | F |
| Old Cybele he would enjoy | G |
| And now the girl and now the boy | G |
| He proffers Jove a back caresse | H |
| And all his love in the antipodes | H |
| - | |
| III | A |
| Jealous of his chast Psyche raging he | C |
| Quarrels with student Mercurie | D |
| And with a proud submissive breath | I |
| Offers to change his darts with Death | I |
| He strikes at the bright eye of day | J |
| And Juno tumbles in her milky way | J |
| - | |
| IV | B |
| The dear sweet secrets of the gods he tells | H |
| And with loath'd hate lov'd heaven he swells | H |
| Now like a fury he belies | H |
| Myriads of pure virginities | H |
| And swears with this false frenzy hurl'd | K |
| There's not a vertuous she in all the world | K |
| - | |
| V | B |
| Olympus he renownces then descends | H |
| And makes a friendship with the fiends | H |
| Bids Charon be no more a slave | B |
| He Argos rigg'd with stars shall have | B |
| And triple Cerberus from below | L |
| Must leash'd t' himself with him a hunting go | L |
Richard Lovelace
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