At A High Ceremony Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDCC EEFF CCCC GGHH| Not the proudest damsel here | A |
| Looks so well as doth my dear | B |
| All the borrowed light of dress | C |
| Outshining not her loveliness | C |
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| A loveliness not born of art | D |
| But growing outwards from her heart | D |
| Illuminating all her face | C |
| And filling all her form with grace | C |
| - | |
| Said I of dress the borrowed light | E |
| Could rival not her beauty bright | E |
| Yet looking round tis truth to tell | F |
| No damsel here is dressed so well | F |
| - | |
| Only in them the dress one sees | C |
| Because more greatly it doth please | C |
| Than any other charm that's theirs | C |
| Than all their manners all their airs | C |
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| But dress in her although indeed | G |
| It perfect be we do not heed | G |
| Because the face the form the air | H |
| Are all so gentle and so rare | H |
Robert Fuller Murray
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