To Althea From Prison. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDADE AFGFHIEIF AAJFJFFFF KLMLNKFKFI | A |
When love with unconfined wings | B |
Hovers within my gates | C |
And my divine ALTHEA brings | B |
To whisper at the grates | C |
When I lye tangled in her haire | D |
And fetterd to her eye | A |
The birds that wanton in the aire | D |
Know no such liberty | E |
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II | A |
When flowing cups run swiftly round | F |
With no allaying THAMES | G |
Our carelesse heads with roses bound | F |
Our hearts with loyal flames | H |
When thirsty griefe in wine we steepe | I |
When healths and draughts go free | E |
Fishes that tipple in the deepe | I |
Know no such libertie | F |
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III | A |
When like committed linnets I | A |
With shriller throat shall sing | J |
The sweetnes mercy majesty | F |
And glories of my King | J |
When I shall voyce aloud how good | F |
He is how great should be | F |
Inlarged winds that curle the flood | F |
Know no such liberty | F |
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IV | K |
Stone walls doe not a prison make | L |
Nor iron bars a cage | M |
Mindes innocent and quiet take | L |
That for an hermitage | N |
If I have freedome in my love | K |
And in my soule am free | F |
Angels alone that sore above | K |
Enjoy such liberty | F |
Richard Lovelace
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