To Amarantha; That She Would Dishevell Her Haire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAA ACCCC ACCCC DCCEE DDDCC DFFDD DDDGG| I | A |
| Amarantha sweet and faire | B |
| Ah brade no more that shining haire | B |
| As my curious hand or eye | A |
| Hovering round thee let it flye | A |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Let it flye as unconfin'd | C |
| As it's calme ravisher the winde | C |
| Who hath left his darling th' East | C |
| To wanton o're that spicie neast | C |
| - | |
| III | A |
| Ev'ry tresse must be confest | C |
| But neatly tangled at the best | C |
| Like a clue of golden thread | C |
| Most excellently ravelled | C |
| - | |
| IV | D |
| Doe not then winde up that light | C |
| In ribands and o'er cloud in night | C |
| Like the sun in's early ray | E |
| But shake your head and scatter day | E |
| - | |
| V | D |
| See 'tis broke within this grove | D |
| The bower and the walkes of love | D |
| Weary lye we downe and rest | C |
| And fanne each other's panting breast | C |
| - | |
| VI | D |
| Heere wee'll strippe and coole our fire | F |
| In creame below in milk baths higher | F |
| And when all wells are drawne dry | D |
| I'll drink a teare out of thine eye | D |
| - | |
| VII | D |
| Which our very joys shall leave | D |
| That sorrowes thus we can deceive | D |
| Or our very sorrowes weepe | G |
| That joyes so ripe so little keepe | G |
Richard Lovelace
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