To A Lady That Desired Me I Would Beare My Part With Her In A Song Madam A. L. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGGFFHH IIJJKKFFLL MNOOJJOOFFJJPPIIPIQQ OOPP IIQQII RRBBIIOOQQII IIFFOOIIFF

This is the prittiest motionA
Madam th' alarums of a drummeB
That cals your lord set to your criesC
To mine are sacred symphoniesD
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What though 'tis said I have a voiceE
I know 'tis but that hollow noiseF
Which as it through my pipe doth speedG
Bitterns do carol through a reedG
In the same key with monkeys jiggsF
Or dirges of proscribed piggsF
Or the soft Serenades aboveH
In calme of night when cats make loveH
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Was ever such a consort seenI
Fourscore and fourteen with forteenI
Yet sooner they'l agree one paireJ
Then we in our spring winter aireJ
They may imbrace sigh kiss the restK
Our breath knows nought but east and westK
Thus have I heard to childrens criesF
The faire nurse still such lullabiesF
That well all sayd for what there layL
The pleasure did the sorrow payL
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Sure ther's another way to saveM
Your phansie madam that's to haveN
'Tis but a petitioning kinde fateO
The organs sent to BilingsgateO
Where they to that soft murm'ring quireJ
Shall teach you all you can admireJ
Or do but heare how love bang KateO
In pantry darke for freage of mateO
With edge of steele the square wood shapesF
And DIDO to it chaunts or scrapesF
The merry Phaeton oth' carreJ
You'l vow makes a melodious jarreJ
Sweeter and sweeter whisleth HeP
To un anointed axel treeP
Such swift notes he and 's wheels do runI
For me I yeeld him Phaebus sonI
Say faire Comandres can it beP
You should ordaine a mutinieI
For where I howle all accents fallQ
As kings harangues to one and allQ
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Ulisses art is now withstoodO
You ravish both with sweet and goodO
Saint Syren sing for I dare heareP
But when I ope' oh stop your eareP
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Far lesse be't aemulationI
To passe me or in trill or toneI
Like the thin throat of PhilomelQ
And the smart lute who should excellQ
As if her soft cords should beginI
And strive for sweetnes with the pinI
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Yet can I musick too but suchR
As is beyond all voice or touchR
My minde can in faire order chimeB
Whilst my true heart still beats the timeB
My soule 's so full of harmonieI
That it with all parts can agreeI
If you winde up to the highest fretO
It shall descend an eight from itO
And when you shall vouchsafe to fallQ
Sixteene above you it shall callQ
And yet so dis assenting oneI
They both shall meet in unisonI
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Come then bright cherubin beginI
My loudest musick is withinI
Take all notes with your skillfull eyesF
Hearke if mine do not sympathiseF
Sound all my thoughts and see exprestO
The tablature of my large brestO
Then you'l admit that I too canI
Musick above dead sounds of manI
Such as alone doth blesse the spheresF
Not to be reacht with humane earesF

Richard Lovelace



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