Female Glory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCCCCDDEEEEFFGG| Mongst the worlds wonders there doth yet remain | A |
| One greater than the rest that's all those o're again | B |
| And her own self beside A Lady whose soft breast | C |
| Is with vast honours soul and virtues life possest | C |
| Fair as original light first from the chaos shot | C |
| When day in virgin beams triumph'd and night was not | C |
| And as that breath infus'd in the new breather good | C |
| When ill unknown was dumb and bad not understood | C |
| Chearful as that aspect at this world's finishing | D |
| When cherubims clapp'd wings and th' sons of Heaven did sing | D |
| Chast as th' Arabian bird who all the ayr denyes | E |
| And ev'n in flames expires when with her selfe she lyes | E |
| Oh she's as kind as drops of new faln April showers | E |
| That on each gentle breast spring fresh perfuming flowers | E |
| She's constant gen'rous fixt she's calm she is the all | F |
| We can of vertue honour faith or glory call | F |
| And she is whom I thus transmit to endless fame | G |
| Mistresse oth' world and me and LAURA is her name | G |
Richard Lovelace
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