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 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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