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 IIFFOOIIFFThis is the prittiest motion | A |
Madam th' alarums of a drumme | B |
That cals your lord set to your cries | C |
To mine are sacred symphonies | D |
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What though 'tis said I have a voice | E |
I know 'tis but that hollow noise | F |
Which as it through my pipe doth speed | G |
Bitterns do carol through a reed | G |
In the same key with monkeys jiggs | F |
Or dirges of proscribed piggs | F |
Or the soft Serenades above | H |
In calme of night when cats make love | H |
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Was ever such a consort seen | I |
Fourscore and fourteen with forteen | I |
Yet sooner they'l agree one paire | J |
Then we in our spring winter aire | J |
They may imbrace sigh kiss the rest | K |
Our breath knows nought but east and west | K |
Thus have I heard to childrens cries | F |
The faire nurse still such lullabies | F |
That well all sayd for what there lay | L |
The pleasure did the sorrow pay | L |
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Sure ther's another way to save | M |
Your phansie madam that's to have | N |
'Tis but a petitioning kinde fate | O |
The organs sent to Bilingsgate | O |
Where they to that soft murm'ring quire | J |
Shall teach you all you can admire | J |
Or do but heare how love bang Kate | O |
In pantry darke for freage of mate | O |
With edge of steele the square wood shapes | F |
And DIDO to it chaunts or scrapes | F |
The merry Phaeton oth' carre | J |
You'l vow makes a melodious jarre | J |
Sweeter and sweeter whisleth He | P |
To un anointed axel tree | P |
Such swift notes he and 's wheels do run | I |
For me I yeeld him Phaebus son | I |
Say faire Comandres can it be | P |
You should ordaine a mutinie | I |
For where I howle all accents fall | Q |
As kings harangues to one and all | Q |
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Ulisses art is now withstood | O |
You ravish both with sweet and good | O |
Saint Syren sing for I dare heare | P |
But when I ope' oh stop your eare | P |
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Far lesse be't aemulation | I |
To passe me or in trill or tone | I |
Like the thin throat of Philomel | Q |
And the smart lute who should excell | Q |
As if her soft cords should begin | I |
And strive for sweetnes with the pin | I |
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Yet can I musick too but such | R |
As is beyond all voice or touch | R |
My minde can in faire order chime | B |
Whilst my true heart still beats the time | B |
My soule 's so full of harmonie | I |
That it with all parts can agree | I |
If you winde up to the highest fret | O |
It shall descend an eight from it | O |
And when you shall vouchsafe to fall | Q |
Sixteene above you it shall call | Q |
And yet so dis assenting one | I |
They both shall meet in unison | I |
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Come then bright cherubin begin | I |
My loudest musick is within | I |
Take all notes with your skillfull eyes | F |
Hearke if mine do not sympathise | F |
Sound all my thoughts and see exprest | O |
The tablature of my large brest | O |
Then you'l admit that I too can | I |
Musick above dead sounds of man | I |
Such as alone doth blesse the spheres | F |
Not to be reacht with humane eares | F |
Richard Lovelace
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