The Grasse-hopper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PPFP QRQH STST PUPUTo My Noble Friend Mr Charles Cotton | A |
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O thou that swing'st upon the waving ear | B |
Of some well filled oaten beard | C |
Drunk ev'ry night with a delicious tear | D |
Dropped thee from heav'n where now th' art reared | C |
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The joys of earth and air are thine entire | E |
That with thy feet and wings dost hop and fly | F |
And when the poppy works thou dost retire | G |
To thy carved acorn bed to lie | F |
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Up with the day the sun thou welcom'st then | H |
Sport'st in the gilt plats of his beams | I |
And all these merry days mak'st merry men | H |
Thyself and melancholy streams | I |
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But ah the sickle golden ears are cropped | J |
Ceres and Bacchus bid good night | K |
Sharp frosty fingers all your flow'rs have topped | J |
And what schythes spared winds shave off quite | K |
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Poor verdant fool and now green ice thy joys | L |
Large and as lasting as thy perch of grass | M |
Bid us lay in 'gainst winter rain and poise | L |
Their floods with an o'erflowing glass | M |
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Thou best of men and friends we will create | N |
A genuine summer in each other's breast | O |
And spite of this cold time and frozen fate | N |
Thaw us a warm seat to our rest | O |
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Our sacred hearths shall burn eternally | P |
As vestal flames the North wind he | P |
Shall strike his frost stretched wings dissolve and fly | F |
This Etna in epitome | P |
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Dropping December shall come weeping in | Q |
Bewail th' usurping of his reign | R |
But when in show'rs of old Greek we begin | Q |
Shall cry he hath his crown again | H |
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Night as clear Hesper shall our tapers whip | S |
From the light casements where we play | T |
And the dark hag from her black mantle strip | S |
And stick there everlasting day | T |
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Thus richer than untempted kings are we | P |
That asking nothing nothing need | U |
Though lord of all that seas embrace yet he | P |
That wants himself is poor indeed | U |
Richard Lovelace
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