Love Inthron'd. Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDDEE ABDBDFFGB AAHGHIIJI HEKEKLMDD| I | 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 |
| - | |
| 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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