The Lady A. L. My Asylum In A Great Exteremity. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGDD CCHHIJKK LLMMDK NNKKOOKP DDKKOOKKKKDDKKQQ DDRRCCKKKKSTKKDDKKKK KKCCKKNNDD NNCCGDUVKKWXNN| With that delight the Royal captiv's brought | A |
| Before the throne to breath his farewell thought | A |
| To tel his last tale and so end with it | B |
| Which gladly he esteemes a benefit | B |
| When the brave victor at his great soule dumbe | C |
| Findes something there fate cannot overcome | C |
| Cals the chain'd prince and by his glory led | D |
| First reaches him his crowne and then his head | D |
| Who ne're 'til now thinks himself slave and poor | E |
| For though nought else he had himselfe before | F |
| He weepes at this faire chance nor wil allow | G |
| But that the diadem doth brand his brow | G |
| And under rates himselfe below mankinde | D |
| Who first had lost his body now his minde | D |
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| With such a joy came I to heare my dombe | C |
| And haste the preparation of my tombe | C |
| When like good angels who have heav'nly charge | H |
| To steere and guide mans sudden giddy barge | H |
| She snatcht me from the rock I was upon | I |
| And landed me at life's pavillion | J |
| Where I thus wound out of th' immense abysse | K |
| Was straight set on a pinacle of blisse | K |
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| Let me leape in againe and by that fall | L |
| Bring me to my first woe so cancel all | L |
| Ah 's this a quitting of the debt you owe | M |
| To crush her and her goodnesse at one blowe | M |
| Defend me from so foule impiety | D |
| Would make friends grieve and furies weep to see | K |
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| Now ye sage spirits which infuse in men | N |
| That are oblidg'd twice to oblige agen | N |
| Informe my tongue in labour what to say | K |
| And in what coyne or language to repay | K |
| But you are silent as the ev'nings ayre | O |
| When windes unto their hollow grots repaire | O |
| Oh then accept the all that left me is | K |
| Devout oblations of a sacred wish | P |
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| When she walks forth ye perfum'd wings oth' East | D |
| Fan her 'til with the Sun she hastes to th' West | D |
| And when her heav'nly course calles up the day | K |
| And breakes as bright descend some glistering ray | K |
| To circle her and her as glistering haire | O |
| That all may say a living saint shines there | O |
| Slow Time with woollen feet make thy soft pace | K |
| And leave no tracks ith' snow of her pure face | K |
| But when this vertue must needs fall to rise | K |
| The brightest constellation in the skies | K |
| When we in characters of fire shall reade | D |
| How cleere she was alive how spotless dead | D |
| All you that are a kinne to piety | K |
| For onely you can her close mourners be | K |
| Draw neer and make of hallowed teares a dearth | Q |
| Goodnes and justice both are fled the earth | Q |
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| If this be to be thankful I'v a heart | D |
| Broaken with vowes eaten with grateful smart | D |
| And beside this the vild world nothing hath | R |
| Worth anything but her provoked wrath | R |
| So then who thinkes to satisfie in time | C |
| Must give a satisfaction for that crime | C |
| Since she alone knowes the gifts value she | K |
| Can onely to her selfe requitall be | K |
| And worthyly to th' life paynt her owne story | K |
| In its true colours and full native glory | K |
| Which when perhaps she shal be heard to tell | S |
| Buffoones and theeves ceasing to do ill | T |
| Shal blush into a virgin innocence | K |
| And then woo others from the same offence | K |
| The robber and the murderer in 'spite | D |
| Of his red spots shal startle into white | D |
| All good rewards layd by shal stil increase | K |
| For love of her and villany decease | K |
| Naught be ignote not so much out of feare | K |
| Of being punisht as offending her | K |
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| So that when as my future daring bayes | K |
| Shall bow it selfe in lawrels to her praise | K |
| To crown her conqu'ring goodnes and proclaime | C |
| The due renowne and glories of her name | C |
| My wit shal be so wretched and so poore | K |
| That 'stead of praysing I shal scandal her | K |
| And leave when with my purest art I'v done | N |
| Scarce the designe of what she is begunne | N |
| Yet men shal send me home admir'd exact | D |
| Proud that I could from her so wel detract | D |
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| Where then thou bold instinct shal I begin | N |
| My endlesse taske To thanke her were a sin | N |
| Great as not speake and not to speake a blame | C |
| Beyond what's worst such as doth want a name | C |
| So thou my all poore gratitude ev'n thou | G |
| In this wilt an unthankful office do | D |
| Or wilt I fling all at her feet I have | U |
| My life my love my very soule a slave | V |
| Tye my free spirit onely unto her | K |
| And yeeld up my affection prisoner | K |
| Fond thought in this thou teachest me to give | W |
| What first was hers since by her breath I live | X |
| And hast but show'd me how I may resigne | N |
| Possession of those thing are none of mine | N |
Richard Lovelace
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