Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEFGG AAAHHBBIJKK AKKLLKKMNKK NOPQQRRSSKKI | A |
You are deceiv'd I sooner may dull fair | B |
Seat a dark Moor in Cassiopea's chair | B |
Or on the glow worm's uselesse light | C |
Bestow the watching flames of night | C |
Or give the rose's breath | D |
To executed death | D |
Ere the bright hiew | E |
Of verse to you | F |
It is just Heaven on beauty stamps a fame | G |
And we alas its triumphs but proclaim | G |
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II | A |
What chains but are too light for me should I | A |
Say that Lucasta in strange arms could lie | A |
Or that Castara were impure | H |
Or Saccarisa's faith unsure | H |
That Chloris' love as hair | B |
Embrac'd each en'mies air | B |
That all their good | I |
Ran in their blood | J |
'Tis the same wrong th' unworthy to inthrone | K |
As from her proper sphere t' have vertue thrown | K |
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III | A |
That strange force on the ignoble hath renown | K |
As AURUM FULMINANS it blows vice down | K |
'Twere better heavy one to crawl | L |
Forgot then raised trod on to fall | L |
All your defections now | K |
Are not writ on your brow | K |
Odes to faults give | M |
A shame must live | N |
When a fat mist we view we coughing run | K |
But that once meteor drawn all cry undone | K |
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IV | N |
How bright the fair Paulina did appear | O |
When hid in jewels she did seem a star | P |
But who could soberly behold | Q |
A wicked owl in cloath of gold | Q |
Or the ridiculous Ape | R |
In sacred Vesta's shape | R |
So doth agree | S |
Just praise with thee | S |
For since thy birth gave thee no beauty know | K |
No poets pencil must or can do so | K |
Richard Lovelace
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