To Lucasta Ode Lyrick Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBB ACCCCC ACCCCC DCCCCC DAAAEC AFGHH AIIIII| I | 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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