To Lucasta Ode Lyrick Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBB ACCCCC ACCCCC DCCCCC DAAAEC AFGHH AIIIIII | A |
Ah LUCASTA why so bright | B |
Spread with early streaked light | B |
If still vailed from our sight | B |
What is't but eternall night | B |
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II | A |
Ah LUCASTA why so chaste | C |
With that vigour ripenes grac't | C |
Not to be by Man imbrac't | C |
Makes that Royall coyne imbace't | C |
And this golden Orchard waste | C |
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III | A |
Ah LUCASTA why so great | C |
That thy crammed coffers sweat | C |
Yet not owner of a seat | C |
May shelter you from Natures heat | C |
And your earthly joyes compleat | C |
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IV | D |
Ah Lucasta why so good | C |
Blest with an unstained flood | C |
Flowing both through soule and blood | C |
If it be not understood | C |
'Tis a Diamond in mud | C |
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V | D |
LUCASTA stay why dost thou flye | A |
Thou art not bright but to the eye | A |
Nor chaste but in the mariage tye | A |
Nor great but in this treasurie | E |
Nor good but in that sanctitie | C |
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VI | A |
Harder then the Orient stone | F |
Like an apparition | G |
Or as a pale shadow gone | H |
Dumbe and deafe she hence is flowne | H |
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VII | A |
Then receive this equall dombe | I |
Virgins strow no teare or bloome | I |
No one dig the Parian wombe | I |
Raise her marble heart i'th' roome | I |
And 'tis both her coarse and tombe | I |
Richard Lovelace
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