To Althea, From Prison Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFHIEIE DJEJK ELE MNMOPEPE| When love with unconfin egrave d wings | A |
| Hovers within my gates | B |
| And my divine Althea brings | A |
| To whisper at the grates | B |
| When I lie tangled in her hair | C |
| And fettered to her eye | D |
| The birds that wanton in the air | C |
| Know no such liberty | E |
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| When flowing cups run swiftly round | F |
| With no allaying Thames | G |
| Our careless heads with roses bound | F |
| Our hearts with loyal flames | H |
| When thirsty grief in wine we steep | I |
| When healths and draughts go free | E |
| Fishes that tipple in the deep | I |
| Know no such liberty | E |
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| When like committed linnets I | D |
| With shriller throat shall sing | J |
| The sweetness mercy majesty | E |
| And glories of my King | J |
| When I shall voice aloud how good | K |
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| He is how great should be | E |
| Enlarg egrave d winds that curl the flood | L |
| Know no such liberty | E |
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| Stone walls do not a prison make | M |
| Nor iron bars a cage | N |
| Minds innocent and quiet take | M |
| That for an hermitage | O |
| If I have freedom in my love | P |
| And in my soul am free | E |
| Angels alone that soar above | P |
| Enjoy such liberty | E |
Richard Lovelace
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