To Lucasta From Prison An Epode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCC ADEFF AGGBB EHIII EFFEE EJKLM EEEFF EEENN GGGFF GIIGG GGGOO GNNPP GQRGG EFGGGI | A |
Long in thy shackels liberty | B |
I ask not from these walls but thee | B |
Left for awhile anothers bride | C |
To fancy all the world beside | C |
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II | A |
Yet e're I doe begin to love | D |
See how I all my objects prove | E |
Then my free soule to that confine | F |
'Twere possible I might call mine | F |
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III | A |
First I would be in love with PEACE | G |
And her rich swelling breasts increase | G |
But how alas how may that be | B |
Despising earth she will love me | B |
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IV | E |
Faine would I be in love with WAR | H |
As my deare just avenging star | I |
But War is lov'd so ev'rywhere | I |
Ev'n he disdaines a lodging here | I |
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V | E |
Thee and thy wounds I would bemoane | F |
Faire thorough shot RELIGION | F |
But he lives only that kills thee | E |
And who so bindes thy hands is free | E |
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VI | E |
I would love a PARLIAMENT | J |
As a maine prop from Heav'n sent | K |
But ah who's he that would be wedded | L |
To th' fairest body that's beheaded | M |
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VII | E |
Next would I court my LIBERTY | E |
And then my birth right PROPERTY | E |
But can that be when it is knowne | F |
There's nothing you can call your owne | F |
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VIII | E |
A REFORMATION I would have | E |
As for our griefes a SOV'RAIGNE salve | E |
That is a cleansing of each wheele | N |
Of state that yet some rust doth feele | N |
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IX | G |
But not a reformation so | G |
As to reforme were to ore'throw | G |
Like watches by unskilfull men | F |
Disjoynted and set ill againe | F |
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X | G |
The PUBLICK FAITH I would adore | I |
But she is banke rupt of her store | I |
Nor how to trust her can I see | G |
For she that couzens all must me | G |
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XI | G |
Since then none of these can be | G |
Fit objects for my love and me | G |
What then remaines but th' only spring | O |
Of all our loves and joyes the King | O |
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XII | G |
He who being the whole ball | N |
Of day on earth lends it to all | N |
When seeking to ecclipse his right | P |
Blinded we stand in our owne light | P |
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XIII | G |
And now an universall mist | Q |
Of error is spread or'e each breast | R |
With such a fury edg'd as is | G |
Not found in th' inwards of th' abysse | G |
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XIV | E |
Oh from thy glorious starry waine | F |
Dispense on me one sacred beame | G |
To light me where I soone may see | G |
How to serve you and you trust me | G |
Richard Lovelace
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