Connubii Flores, Or The Well-wishes At Weddings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EEFGHIIIHJKJK HHKKLLMM KKKNNN OOPQRMSSBB TTKK KKKKKKKK OOMMMM UV KK| Chorus Sacerdotum From the temple to your home | A |
| May a thousand blessings come | B |
| And a sweet concurring stream | C |
| Of all joys to join with them | D |
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| Chorus Juvenum Happy Day | E |
| Make no long stay | E |
| Here | F |
| In thy sphere | G |
| But give thy place to Night | H |
| That she | I |
| As thee | I |
| May be | I |
| Partaker of this sight | H |
| And since it was thy care | J |
| To see the younglings wed | K |
| 'Tis fit that Night the pair | J |
| Should see safe brought to bed | K |
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| Chorus Senum Go to your banquet then but use delight | H |
| So as to rise still with an appetite | H |
| Love is a thing most nice and must be fed | K |
| To such a height but never surfeited | K |
| What is beyond the mean is ever ill | L |
| 'Tis best to feed Love but not overfill | L |
| Go then discreetly to the bed of pleasure | M |
| And this remember virtue keeps the measure | M |
| - | |
| Chorus Virginum Lucky signs we have descri'd | K |
| To encourage on the bride | K |
| And to these we have espi'd | K |
| Not a kissing Cupid flies | N |
| Here about but has his eyes | N |
| To imply your love is wise | N |
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| Chorus Pastorum Here we present a fleece | O |
| To make a piece | O |
| Of cloth | P |
| Nor fair must you be both | Q |
| Your finger to apply | R |
| To housewifery | M |
| Then then begin | S |
| To spin | S |
| And sweetling mark you what a web will come | B |
| Into your chests drawn by your painful thumb | B |
| - | |
| Chorus Matronarum Set you to your wheel and wax | T |
| Rich by the ductile wool and flax | T |
| Yarn is an income and the housewives' thread | K |
| The larder fills with meat the bin with bread | K |
| - | |
| Chorus Senum Let wealth come in by comely thrift | K |
| And not by any sordid shift | K |
| 'Tis haste | K |
| Makes waste | K |
| Extremes have still their fault | K |
| The softest fire makes the sweetest malt | K |
| Who grips too hard the dry and slippery sand | K |
| Holds none at all or little in his hand | K |
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| Chorus Virginum Goddess of pleasure youth and peace | O |
| Give them the blessing of increase | O |
| And thou Lucina that dost hear | M |
| The vows of those that children bear | M |
| Whenas her April hour draws near | M |
| Be thou then propitious there | M |
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| Chorus Juvenum Far hence be all speech that may anger move | U |
| Sweet words must nourish soft and gentle love | V |
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| Chorus Omnium Live in the love of doves and having told | K |
| The raven's years go hence more ripe than old | K |
Robert Herrick
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