Lucasta At The Bath. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBB ACCDD AEFGG HBBII HJJCC HKKLL HBBHH HBBMM HBBNN HHHOOI | A |
I' th' autumn of a summer's day | B |
When all the winds got leave to play | B |
LUCASTA that fair ship is lanch'd | B |
And from its crust this almond blanch'd | B |
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II | A |
Blow then unruly northwind blow | C |
'Till in their holds your eyes you stow | C |
And swell your cheeks bequeath chill death | D |
See she hath smil'd thee out of breath | D |
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III | A |
Court gentle zephyr court and fan | E |
Her softer breast's carnation wan | F |
Your charming rhethorick of down | G |
Flyes scatter'd from before her frown | G |
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IV | H |
Say my white water lilly say | B |
How is't those warm streams break away | B |
Cut by thy chast cold breast which dwells | I |
Amidst them arm'd in isicles | I |
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V | H |
And the hot floods more raging grown | J |
In flames of thee then in their own | J |
In their distempers wildly glow | C |
And kisse thy pillar of fix'd snow | C |
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VI | H |
No sulphur through whose each blew vein | K |
The thick and lazy currents strein | K |
Can cure the smarting nor the fell | L |
Blisters of love wherewith they swell | L |
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VII | H |
These great physicians of the blind | B |
The lame and fatal blains of Inde | B |
In every drop themselves now see | H |
Speckled with a new leprosie | H |
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VIII | H |
As sick drinks are with old wine dash'd | B |
Foul waters too with spirits wash'd | B |
Thou greiv'd perchance one tear let'st fall | M |
Which straight did purifie them all | M |
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IX | H |
And now is cleans'd enough the flood | B |
Which since runs cleare as doth thy blood | B |
Of the wet pearls uncrown thy hair | N |
And mantle thee with ermin air | N |
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X | H |
Lucasta hail fair conqueresse | H |
Of fire air earth and seas | H |
Thou whom all kneel to yet even thou | O |
Wilt unto love thy captive bow | O |
Richard Lovelace
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