A Hymn To The Graces Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFEECC| When I love as some have told | A |
| Love I shall when I am old | A |
| O ye Graces make me fit | B |
| For the welcoming of it | B |
| Clean my rooms as temples be | C |
| To entertain that deity | C |
| Give me words wherewith to woo | D |
| Suppling and successful too | D |
| Winning postures and withal | E |
| Manners each way musical | E |
| Sweetness to allay my sour | F |
| And unsmooth behaviour | F |
| For I know you have the skill | E |
| Vines to prune though not to kill | E |
| And of any wood ye see | C |
| You can make a Mercury | C |
Robert Herrick
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