Lucasta Paying Her Obsequies To The Chast Memory Of My Dearest Cosin Mrs. Bowes Barne[s] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC AEFEF AEEGE HGEGE GFIFI HJJJH| I | A |
| See what an undisturbed teare | B |
| She weepes for her last sleepe | C |
| But viewing her straight wak'd a Star | D |
| She weepes that she did weepe | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Griefe ne're before did tyranize | E |
| On th' honour of that brow | F |
| And at the wheeles of her brave eyes | E |
| Was captive led til now | F |
| - | |
| III | A |
| Thus for a saints apostacy | E |
| The unimagin'd woes | E |
| And sorrowes of the Hierarchy | G |
| None but an angel knowes | E |
| - | |
| IV | H |
| Thus for lost soules recovery | G |
| The clapping of all wings | E |
| And triumphs of this victory | G |
| None but an angel sings | E |
| - | |
| V | G |
| So none but she knows to bemone | F |
| This equal virgins fate | I |
| None but LUCASTA can her crowne | F |
| Of glory celebrate | I |
| - | |
| VI | H |
| Then dart on me CHAST LIGHT one ray | J |
| By which I may discry | J |
| Thy joy cleare through this cloudy day | J |
| To dresse my sorrow by | H |
Richard Lovelace
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