To Lucasta Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BBBBB BBBBB BBBBB CCCDB EFGG HHHHHAh 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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