Song. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACDD AEFEFGH I HHEEFFEEJJEEKKFF| I | A |
| In mine one monument I lye | A |
| And in my self am buried | B |
| Sure the quick lightning of her eye | A |
| Melted my soul ith' scabberd dead | C |
| And now like some pale ghost I walk | D |
| And with another's spirit talk | D |
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| II | A |
| Nor can her beams a heat convey | E |
| That may my frozen bosome warm | F |
| Unless her smiles have pow'r as they | E |
| That a cross charm can countercharm | F |
| But this is such a pleasing pain | G |
| I'm loth to be alive again | H |
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| ANOTHER | I |
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| I did believe I was in heav'n | H |
| When first the heav'n her self was giv'n | H |
| That in my heart her beams did passe | E |
| As some the sun keep in a glasse | E |
| So that her beauties thorow me | F |
| Did hurt my rival enemy | F |
| But fate alas decreed it so | E |
| That I was engine to my woe | E |
| For as a corner'd christal spot | J |
| My heart diaphanous was not | J |
| But solid stuffe where her eye flings | E |
| Quick fire upon the catching strings | E |
| Yet as at triumphs in the night | K |
| You see the Prince's Arms in light | K |
| So when I once was set on flame | F |
| I burnt all ore the letters of her name | F |
Richard Lovelace
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