Cupid Far Gone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEE AFFGGHH ACDIIJJ BHHHHKK BHHBBLLI | 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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