To Lucasta, The Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC A DDEE A FFCC G HHEE G EEII G HHEE| I | A |
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| Sweet serene skye like flower | B |
| Haste to adorn her bower | B |
| From thy long clowdy bed | C |
| Shoot forth thy damaske head | C |
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| II | A |
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| New startled blush of Flora | D |
| The griefe of pale Aurora | D |
| Who will contest no more | E |
| Haste haste to strowe her floore | E |
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| III | A |
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| Vermilion ball that's given | F |
| From lip to lip in Heaven | F |
| Loves couches cover led | C |
| Haste haste to make her bed | C |
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| IV | G |
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| Dear offspring of pleas'd Venus | H |
| And jollie plumpe Silenus | H |
| Haste haste to decke the haire | E |
| Of th' only sweetly faire | E |
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| V | G |
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| See rosie is her bower | E |
| Her floore is all this flower | E |
| Her bed a rosie nest | I |
| By a bed of roses prest | I |
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| VI | G |
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| But early as she dresses | H |
| Why fly you her bright tresses | H |
| Ah I have found I feare | E |
| Because her cheekes are neere | E |
Richard Lovelace
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