Connubii Flores, Or The Well-wishes At Weddings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EEFGHIIIHJKJK HHKKLLMM KKKNNN OOPQRMSSBB TTKK KKKKKKKK OOMMMM UV KKChorus 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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