The Snayl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEEFF GGHHIIJJ KKLLMM EENEOGPPQQ DDRPSTUUVVWWRR MMXMEEEEYYMMZZEE

Wise emblem of our politick worldA
Sage Snayl within thine own self curl'dA
Instruct me softly to make hastB
Whilst these my feet go slowly fastB
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Compendious Snayl thou seem'st to meC
Large Euclid's strict epitomeC
And in each diagram dost flingD
Thee from the point unto the ringD
A figure now trianglareE
An oval now and now a squareE
And then a serpentine dost crawlF
Now a straight line now crook'd now allF
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Preventing rival of the dayG
Th' art up and openest thy rayG
And ere the morn cradles the moonH
Th' art broke into a beauteous noonH
Then when the Sun sups in the deepI
Thy silver horns e're Cinthia's peepI
And thou from thine own liquid bedJ
New Phoebus heav'st thy pleasant headJ
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Who shall a name for thee createK
Deep riddle of mysterious stateK
Bold Nature that gives common birthL
To all products of seas and earthL
Of thee as earth quakes is afraidM
Nor will thy dire deliv'ry aidM
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Thou thine own daughter then and sireE
That son and mother art intireE
That big still with thy self dost goN
And liv'st an aged embrioE
That like the cubbs of IndiaO
Thou from thy self a while dost playG
But frighted with a dog or gunP
In thine own belly thou dost runP
And as thy house was thine own wombQ
So thine own womb concludes thy tombQ
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But now I must analys'd kingD
Thy oeconomick virtues singD
Thou great stay'd husband still withinR
Thou thee that's thine dost disciplineP
And when thou art to progress bentS
Thou mov'st thy self and tenementT
As warlike Scythians travayl'd youU
Remove your men and city tooU
Then after a sad dearth and rainV
Thou scatterest thy silver trainV
And when the trees grow nak'd and oldW
Thou cloathest them with cloth of goldW
Which from thy bowels thou dost spinR
And draw from the rich mines withinR
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Now hast thou chang'd thee saint and madeM
Thy self a fane that's cupula'dM
And in thy wreathed cloister thouX
Walkest thine own gray fryer tooM
Strickt and lock'd up th'art hood all oreE
And ne'r eliminat'st thy doreE
On sallads thou dost feed severeE
And 'stead of beads thou drop'st a tearE
And when to rest each calls the bellY
Thou sleep'st within thy marble cellY
Where in dark contemplation plac'dM
The sweets of Nature thou dost tastM
Who now with time thy days resolveZ
And in a jelly thee dissolveZ
Like a shot star which doth repairE
Upward and rarifie the airE

Richard Lovelace



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