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