Love Inthron'd. Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDDEE ABDBDFFGB AAHGHIIJI HEKEKLMDDI | A |
Introth I do my self perswade | B |
That the wilde boy is grown a man | C |
And all his childishnesse off laid | B |
E're since LUCASTA did his fires fan | C |
H' has left his apish jigs | D |
And whipping hearts like gigs | D |
For t' other day I heard him swear | E |
That beauty should be crown'd in honours chair | E |
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II | A |
With what a true and heavenly state | B |
He doth his glorious darts dispence | D |
Now cleans'd from falsehood blood and hate | B |
And newly tipt with innocence | D |
Love Justice is become | F |
And doth the cruel doome | F |
Reversed is the old decree | G |
Behold he sits inthron'd with majestie | B |
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III | A |
Inthroned in LUCASTA'S eye | A |
He doth our faith and hearts survey | H |
Then measures them by sympathy | G |
And each to th' others breast convey | H |
Whilst to his altars now | I |
The frozen vestals bow | I |
And strickt Diana too doth go | J |
A hunting with his fear'd exchanged bow | I |
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IV | H |
Th' imbracing seas and ambient air | E |
Now in his holy fires burn | K |
Fish couple birds and beasts in pair | E |
Do their own sacrifices turn | K |
This is a miracle | L |
That might religion swell | M |
But she that these and their god awes | D |
Her crowned self submits to her own laws | D |
Richard Lovelace
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