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