The Snayl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEEFF GGHHIIJJ KKLLMM EENEOGPPQQ DDRPSTUUVVWWRR MMXMEEEEYYMMZZEEWise emblem of our politick world | A |
Sage Snayl within thine own self curl'd | A |
Instruct me softly to make hast | B |
Whilst these my feet go slowly fast | B |
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Compendious Snayl thou seem'st to me | C |
Large Euclid's strict epitome | C |
And in each diagram dost fling | D |
Thee from the point unto the ring | D |
A figure now trianglare | E |
An oval now and now a square | E |
And then a serpentine dost crawl | F |
Now a straight line now crook'd now all | F |
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Preventing rival of the day | G |
Th' art up and openest thy ray | G |
And ere the morn cradles the moon | H |
Th' art broke into a beauteous noon | H |
Then when the Sun sups in the deep | I |
Thy silver horns e're Cinthia's peep | I |
And thou from thine own liquid bed | J |
New Phoebus heav'st thy pleasant head | J |
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Who shall a name for thee create | K |
Deep riddle of mysterious state | K |
Bold Nature that gives common birth | L |
To all products of seas and earth | L |
Of thee as earth quakes is afraid | M |
Nor will thy dire deliv'ry aid | M |
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Thou thine own daughter then and sire | E |
That son and mother art intire | E |
That big still with thy self dost go | N |
And liv'st an aged embrio | E |
That like the cubbs of India | O |
Thou from thy self a while dost play | G |
But frighted with a dog or gun | P |
In thine own belly thou dost run | P |
And as thy house was thine own womb | Q |
So thine own womb concludes thy tomb | Q |
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But now I must analys'd king | D |
Thy oeconomick virtues sing | D |
Thou great stay'd husband still within | R |
Thou thee that's thine dost discipline | P |
And when thou art to progress bent | S |
Thou mov'st thy self and tenement | T |
As warlike Scythians travayl'd you | U |
Remove your men and city too | U |
Then after a sad dearth and rain | V |
Thou scatterest thy silver train | V |
And when the trees grow nak'd and old | W |
Thou cloathest them with cloth of gold | W |
Which from thy bowels thou dost spin | R |
And draw from the rich mines within | R |
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Now hast thou chang'd thee saint and made | M |
Thy self a fane that's cupula'd | M |
And in thy wreathed cloister thou | X |
Walkest thine own gray fryer too | M |
Strickt and lock'd up th'art hood all ore | E |
And ne'r eliminat'st thy dore | E |
On sallads thou dost feed severe | E |
And 'stead of beads thou drop'st a tear | E |
And when to rest each calls the bell | Y |
Thou sleep'st within thy marble cell | Y |
Where in dark contemplation plac'd | M |
The sweets of Nature thou dost tast | M |
Who now with time thy days resolve | Z |
And in a jelly thee dissolve | Z |
Like a shot star which doth repair | E |
Upward and rarifie the air | E |
Richard Lovelace
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