His Farewell To Sack Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLLMMNNEEOOPPQQRSTT UUVSWWEEXYZA2EE| Farewell thou thing time past so known so dear | A |
| To me as blood to life and spirit near | A |
| Nay thou more near than kindred friend man wife | B |
| Male to the female soul to body life | B |
| To quick action or the warm soft side | C |
| Of the resigning yet resisting bride | C |
| The kiss of virgins first fruits of the bed | D |
| Soft speech smooth touch the lips the maidenhead | D |
| These and a thousand sweets could never be | E |
| So near or dear as thou wast once to me | E |
| O thou the drink of gods and angels wine | F |
| That scatter'st spirit and lust whose purest shine | F |
| More radiant than the summer's sunbeams shows | G |
| Each way illustrious brave and like to those | G |
| Comets we see by night whose shagg'd portents | H |
| Foretell the coming of some dire events | H |
| Or some full flame which with a pride aspires | I |
| Throwing about his wild and active fires | I |
| 'Tis thou above nectar O divinest soul | J |
| Eternal in thyself that can'st control | J |
| That which subverts whole nature grief and care | K |
| Vexation of the mind and damn'd despair | K |
| 'Tis thou alone who with thy mystic fan | L |
| Work'st more than wisdom art or nature can | L |
| To rouse the sacred madness and awake | M |
| The frost bound blood and spirits and to make | M |
| Them frantic with thy raptures flashing through | N |
| The soul like lightning and as active too | N |
| 'Tis not Apollo can or those thrice three | E |
| Castalian sisters sing if wanting thee | E |
| Horace Anacreon both had lost their fame | O |
| Had'st thou not fill'd them with thy fire and flame | O |
| Ph oe bean splendour and thou Thespian spring | P |
| Of which sweet swans must drink before they sing | P |
| Their true pac'd numbers and their holy lays | Q |
| Which makes them worthy cedar and the bays | Q |
| But why why longer do I gaze upon | R |
| Thee with the eye of admiration | S |
| Since I must leave thee and enforc'd must say | T |
| To all thy witching beauties Go away | T |
| But if thy whimpering looks do ask me why | U |
| Then know that nature bids thee go not I | U |
| 'Tis her erroneous self has made a brain | V |
| Uncapable of such a sovereign | S |
| As is thy powerful self Prithee not smile | W |
| Or smile more inly lest thy looks beguile | W |
| My vows denounc'd in zeal which thus much show thee | E |
| That I have sworn but by thy looks to know thee | E |
| Let others drink thee freely and desire | X |
| Thee and their lips espous'd while I admire | Y |
| And love thee but not taste thee Let my muse | Z |
| Fail of thy former helps and only use | A2 |
| Her inadult'rate strength what's done by me | E |
| Hereafter shall smell of the lamp not thee | E |
Robert Herrick
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