Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEFGG AAAHHBBIJKK AKKLLKKMNKK NOPQQRRSSKK| I | 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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