To Ellinda Upon His Late Recovery. A Paradox Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC ADEDE AFGHG IDJDJ DDKAK ACLCL AGGGG| I | A |
| How I grieve that I am well | B |
| All my health was in my sicknes | C |
| Go then Destiny and tell | B |
| Very death is in this quicknes | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Such a fate rules over me | D |
| That I glory when I languish | E |
| And do blesse the remedy | D |
| That doth feed not quench my anguish | E |
| - | |
| III | A |
| 'Twas a gentle warmth that ceas'd | F |
| In the vizard of a feavor | G |
| But I feare now I am eas'd | H |
| All the flames since I must leave her | G |
| - | |
| IV | I |
| Joyes though witherd circled me | D |
| When unto her voice inured | J |
| Like those who by harmony | D |
| Only can be throughly cured | J |
| - | |
| V | D |
| Sweet sure was that malady | D |
| Whilst the pleasant angel hover'd | K |
| Which ceasing they are all as I | A |
| Angry that they are recover'd | K |
| - | |
| VI | A |
| And as men in hospitals | C |
| That are maim'd are lodg'd and dined | L |
| But when once their danger fals | C |
| Ah th' are healed to be pined | L |
| - | |
| VII | A |
| Fainting so I might before | G |
| Sometime have the leave to hand her | G |
| But lusty am beat out of dore | G |
| And for Love compell'd to wander | G |
Richard Lovelace
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