Lucasta's Fanne, With A Looking- Glasse In It Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCC ADEDE AACAC ADCDC AFCFC ACCCC ADFDF ACCCC FCFCFI | A |
Eastrich thou featherd foole and easie prey | B |
That larger sailes to thy broad vessell needst | C |
Snakes through thy guttur neck hisse all the day | C |
Then on thy iron messe at supper feedst | C |
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II | A |
O what a glorious transmigration | D |
From this to so divine an edifice | E |
Hast thou straight made heere from a winged stone | D |
Transform'd into a bird of paradice | E |
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III | A |
Now doe thy plumes for hiew and luster vie | A |
With th' arch of heav'n that triumphs or'e past wet | C |
And in a rich enamel'd pinion lye | A |
With saphyres amethists and opalls set | C |
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IV | A |
Sometime they wing her side thee strive to drown | D |
The day's eyes piercing beames whose am'rous heat | C |
Sollicites still 'till with this shield of downe | D |
From her brave face his glowing fires are beat | C |
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V | A |
But whilst a plumy curtaine she doth draw | F |
A chrystall mirror sparkles in thy breast | C |
In which her fresh aspect when as she saw | F |
And then her foe retired to the west | C |
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VI | A |
Deare engine that oth' sun got'st me the day | C |
'Spite of his hot assaults mad'st him retreat | C |
No wind said she dare with thee henceforth play | C |
But mine own breath to coole the tyrants heat | C |
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VII | A |
My lively shade thou ever shalt retaine | D |
In thy inclosed feather framed glasse | F |
And but unto our selves to all remaine | D |
Invisible thou feature of this face | F |
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VIII | A |
So said her sad swaine over heard and cried | C |
Yee Gods for faith unstaind this a reward | C |
Feathers and glasse t'outweigh my vertue tryed | C |
Ah show their empty strength the gods accord | C |
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IX | F |
Now fall'n the brittle favourite lyes and burst | C |
Amas'd LUCASTA weepes repents and flies | F |
To her ALEXIS vowes her selfe acurst | C |
If hence she dresse her selfe but in his eyes | F |
Richard Lovelace
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