Her Muffe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCC ADDEEF AGGHHH BIIJJJ BGGBBBI | A |
Twas not for some calm blessing to deceive | B |
Thou didst thy polish'd hands in shagg'd furs weave | B |
It were no blessing thus obtain'd | C |
Thou rather would'st a curse have gain'd | C |
Then let thy warm driven snow be ever stain'd | C |
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II | A |
Not that you feared the discolo'ring cold | D |
Might alchymize their silver into gold | D |
Nor could your ten white nuns so sin | E |
That you should thus pennance them in | E |
Each in her coarse hair smock of discipline | F |
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III | A |
Nor Hero like who on their crest still wore | G |
A lyon panther leopard or a bore | G |
To looke their enemies in their herse | H |
Thou would'st thy hand should deeper pierce | H |
And in its softness rough appear more fierce | H |
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IV | B |
No no LUCASTA destiny decreed | I |
That beasts to thee a sacrifice should bleed | I |
And strip themselves to make you gay | J |
For ne'r yet herald did display | J |
A coat where SABLES upon ERMIN lay | J |
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V | B |
This for lay lovers that must stand at dore | G |
Salute the threshold and admire no more | G |
But I in my invention tough | B |
Rate not this outward bliss enough | B |
But still contemplate must the hidden muffe | B |
Richard Lovelace
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