To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE EEFG HHII JKEE LLBB MMNN| Amarantha sweet and fair | A |
| Ah braid no more that shining hair | A |
| As my curious hand or eye | B |
| Hovering round thee let it fly | B |
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| Let it fly as unconfined | C |
| As its calm ravisher the wind | C |
| Who hath left his darling th' East | D |
| To wanton o'er that spicy nest | E |
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| Every tress must be confessed | E |
| But neatly tangled at the best | E |
| Like a clew of golden thread | F |
| Most excellently ravell egrave d | G |
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| Do not then wind up that light | H |
| In ribbands and o'ercloud in night | H |
| Like the sun in 's early ray | I |
| But shake your head and scatter day | I |
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| See 'tis broke Within this grove | J |
| The bower and the walks of love | K |
| Weary lie we down and rest | E |
| And fan each other's panting breast | E |
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| Here we'll strip and cool our fire | L |
| In cream below in milk baths higher | L |
| And when all wells are drawn dry | B |
| I'll drink a tear out of thine eye | B |
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| Which our very joys shall leave | M |
| That sorrows thus we can deceive | M |
| Or our very sorrows weep | N |
| That joys so ripe so little keep | N |
Richard Lovelace
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