Sir Thomas Wortley's Sonnet Answered Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCBBDC EFEGHCGCG B GGGCGGCIC J JCJTHE SONNET | A |
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I | - |
No more | B |
Thou little winged archer now no more | B |
As heretofore | B |
Thou maist pretend within my breast to bide | C |
No more | B |
Since cruell Death of dearest LYNDAMORE | B |
Hath me depriv'd | D |
I bid adieu to love and all the world beside | C |
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II | - |
Go go | E |
Lay by thy quiver and unbend thy bow | F |
Poore sillie foe | E |
Thou spend'st thy shafts but at my breast in vain | G |
Since Death | H |
My heart hath with a fatall icie deart | C |
Already slain | G |
Thou canst not ever hope to warme her wound | C |
Or wound it o're againe | G |
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THE ANSWER | B |
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I | - |
Againe | G |
Thou witty cruell wanton now againe | G |
Through ev'ry veine | G |
Hurle all your lightning and strike ev'ry dart | C |
Againe | G |
Before I feele this pleasing pleasing paine | G |
I have no heart | C |
Nor can I live but sweetly murder'd with | I |
So deare so deare a smart | C |
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II | - |
Then flye | - |
And kindle all your torches at her eye | - |
To make me dye | - |
Her martyr and put on my roabe of flame | J |
So I | - |
Advanced on my blazing wings on high | - |
In death became | J |
Inthroan'd a starre and ornament unto | C |
Her glorious glorious name | J |
Richard Lovelace
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