Lucasta, Taking The Waters At Tunbridge. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC AEFEG AHIHI JKJKL JMGMG JJNJO JPQPQ| I | A |
| Yee happy floods that now must passe | B |
| The sacred conduicts of her wombe | C |
| Smooth and transparent as your face | D |
| When you are deafe and windes are dumbe | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Be proud and if your waters be | E |
| Foul'd with a counterfeyted teare | F |
| Or some false sigh hath stained yee | E |
| Haste and be purified there | G |
| - | |
| III | A |
| And when her rosie gates y'have trac'd | H |
| Continue yet some Orient wet | I |
| 'Till turn'd into a gemme y'are plac'd | H |
| Like diamonds with rubies set | I |
| - | |
| IV | J |
| Yee drops that dew th' Arabian bowers | K |
| Tell me did you e're smell or view | J |
| On any leafe of all your flowers | K |
| Soe sweet a sent so rich a hiew | L |
| - | |
| V | J |
| But as through th' Organs of her breath | M |
| You trickle wantonly beware | G |
| Ambitious Seas in their just death | M |
| As well as Lovers must have share | G |
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| VI | J |
| And see you boyle as well as I | J |
| You that to coole her did aspire | N |
| Now troubled and neglected lye | J |
| Nor can your selves quench your owne fire | O |
| - | |
| VII | J |
| Yet still be happy in the thought | P |
| That in so small a time as this | Q |
| Through all the Heavens you were brought | P |
| Of Vertue Honour Love and Blisse | Q |
Richard Lovelace
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