Lucasta At The Bath. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBB ACCDD AEFGG HBBII HJJCC HKKLL HBBHH HBBMM HBBNN HHHOO| I | 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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Lucasta At The Bath. is a poem by Richard Lovelace. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.