To Althea, From Prison Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFHIEIE DJEJK ELE MNMOPEPEWhen 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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