Love Made In The First Age. To Chloris. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDE AFFGHHG AIIJKKJ LMMDHHN LHHOPPO LQQHRRH LOSPRRM LHHRTUR HLLVLHU HLLLHHL| I | A |
| In the nativity of time | B |
| Chloris it was not thought a crime | B |
| In direct Hebrew for to woe | C |
| Now wee make love as all on fire | D |
| Ring retrograde our lowd desire | D |
| And court in English backward too | E |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Thrice happy was that golden age | F |
| When complement was constru'd rage | F |
| And fine words in the center hid | G |
| When cursed NO stain'd no maid's blisse | H |
| And all discourse was summ'd in YES | H |
| And nought forbad but to forbid | G |
| - | |
| III | A |
| Love then unstinted love did sip | I |
| And cherries pluck'd fresh from the lip | I |
| On cheeks and roses free he fed | J |
| Lasses like Autumne plums did drop | K |
| And lads indifferently did drop | K |
| A flower and a maiden head | J |
| - | |
| IV | L |
| Then unconfined each did tipple | M |
| Wine from the bunch milk from the nipple | M |
| Paps tractable as udders were | D |
| Then equally the wholsome jellies | H |
| Were squeez'd from olive trees and bellies | H |
| Nor suits of trespasse did they fear | N |
| - | |
| V | L |
| A fragrant bank of strawberries | H |
| Diaper'd with violets' eyes | H |
| Was table table cloth and fare | O |
| No palace to the clouds did swell | P |
| Each humble princesse then did dwell | P |
| In the Piazza of her hair | O |
| - | |
| VI | L |
| Both broken faith and th' cause of it | Q |
| All damning gold was damn'd to th' pit | Q |
| Their troth seal'd with a clasp and kisse | H |
| Lasted until that extreem day | R |
| In which they smil'd their souls away | R |
| And in each other breath'd new blisse | H |
| - | |
| VII | L |
| Because no fault there was no tear | O |
| No grone did grate the granting ear | S |
| No false foul breath their del'cat smell | P |
| No serpent kiss poyson'd the tast | R |
| Each touch was naturally chast | R |
| And their mere Sense a Miracle | M |
| - | |
| VIII | L |
| Naked as their own innocence | H |
| And unembroyder'd from offence | H |
| They went above poor riches gay | R |
| On softer than the cignet's down | T |
| In beds they tumbled off their own | U |
| For each within the other lay | R |
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| IX | H |
| Thus did they live thus did they love | L |
| Repeating only joyes above | L |
| And angels were but with cloaths on | V |
| Which they would put off cheerfully | L |
| To bathe them in the Galaxie | H |
| Then gird them with the heavenly zone | U |
| - | |
| X | H |
| Now Chloris miserably crave | L |
| The offer'd blisse you would not have | L |
| Which evermore I must deny | L |
| Whilst ravish'd with these noble dreams | H |
| And crowned with mine own soft beams | H |
| Injoying of my self I lye | L |
Richard Lovelace
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