To Ellinda, That Lately I Have Not Written Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGAAHI| If in me anger or disdaine | A |
| In you or both made me refraine | A |
| From th' noble intercourse of verse | B |
| That only vertuous thoughts rehearse | B |
| Then chaste Ellinda might you feare | C |
| The sacred vowes that I did sweare | C |
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| But if alone some pious thought | D |
| Me to an inward sadnesse brought | D |
| Thinking to breath your soule too welle | E |
| My tongue was charmed with that spell | E |
| And left it since there was no roome | F |
| To voyce your worth enough strooke dumbe | F |
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| So then this silence doth reveal | G |
| No thought of negligence but zeal | G |
| For as in adoration | A |
| This is love's true devotion | A |
| Children and fools the words repeat | H |
| But anch'rites pray in tears and sweat | I |
Richard Lovelace
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To Ellinda, That Lately I Have Not Written is a poem by Richard Lovelace. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.