To Ellinda, That Lately I Have Not Written Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGAAHIIf 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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