Oberon's Palace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCADD BBEEFFGGHIJKLLCAMMNN OOOOOOPPQQRRSSOOTTHH UUCCVVBBWWOOOOXXRRBB YYYOORRBBOOBBOOZZCBR RA2B2BBC2C2D2E2CBBBF 2F2C2C2OOOOBBOOBBRRB BRR| After the feast my Shapcot see | A |
| The fairy court I give to thee | A |
| Where we'll present our Oberon led | B |
| Half tipsy to the fairy bed | B |
| Where Mab he finds who there doth lie | C |
| Not without mickle majesty | A |
| Which done and thence remov'd the light | D |
| We'll wish both them and thee good night | D |
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| Full as a bee with thyme and red | B |
| As cherry harvest now high fed | B |
| For lust and action on he'll go | E |
| To lie with Mab though all say no | E |
| Lust has no ears he's sharp as thorn | F |
| And fretful carries hay in's horn | F |
| And lightning in his eyes and flings | G |
| Among the elves if moved the stings | G |
| Of peltish wasps well know his guard | H |
| Kings though they're hated will be fear'd | I |
| Wine lead s him on Thus to a grove | J |
| Sometimes devoted unto love | K |
| Tinselled with twilight he and they | L |
| Led by the shine of snails a way | L |
| Beat with their num'rous feet which by | C |
| Many a neat perplexity | A |
| Many a turn and many a cross | M |
| Track they redeem a bank of moss | M |
| Spongy and swelling and far more | N |
| Soft than the finest Lemster ore | N |
| Mildly disparkling like those fires | O |
| Which break from the enjewell'd tyres | O |
| Of curious brides or like those mites | O |
| Of candi'd dew in moony nights | O |
| Upon this convex all the flowers | O |
| Nature begets by th' sun and showers | O |
| Are to a wild digestion brought | P |
| As if love's sampler here was wrought | P |
| Or Citherea's ceston which | Q |
| All with temptation doth bewitch | Q |
| Sweet airs move here and more divine | R |
| Made by the breath of great eyed kine | R |
| Who as they low impearl with milk | S |
| The four leaved grass or moss like silk | S |
| The breath of monkeys met to mix | O |
| With musk flies are th' aromatics | O |
| Which 'cense this arch and here and there | T |
| And farther off and everywhere | T |
| Throughout that brave mosaic yard | H |
| Those picks or diamonds in the card | H |
| With peeps of hearts of club and spade | U |
| Are here most neatly inter laid | U |
| Many a counter many a die | C |
| Half rotten and without an eye | C |
| Lies hereabouts and for to pave | V |
| The excellency of this cave | V |
| Squirrels' and children's teeth late shed | B |
| Are neatly here enchequered | B |
| With brownest toadstones and the gum | W |
| That shines upon the bluer plum | W |
| The nails fallen off by whitflaws art's | O |
| Wise hand enchasing here those warts | O |
| Which we to others from ourselves | O |
| Sell and brought hither by the elves | O |
| The tempting mole stolen from the neck | X |
| Of the shy virgin seems to deck | X |
| The holy entrance where within | R |
| The room is hung with the blue skin | R |
| Of shifted snake enfriez'd throughout | B |
| With eyes of peacocks' trains and trout | B |
| Flies' curious wings and these among | Y |
| Those silver pence that cut the tongue | Y |
| Of the red infant neatly hung | Y |
| The glow worm's eyes the shining scales | O |
| Of silv'ry fish wheat straws the snail's | O |
| Soft candle light the kitling's eyne | R |
| Corrupted wood serve here for shine | R |
| No glaring light of bold fac'd day | B |
| Or other over radiant ray | B |
| Ransacks this room but what weak beams | O |
| Can make reflected from these gems | O |
| And multiply such is the light | B |
| But ever doubtful day or night | B |
| By this quaint taper light he winds | O |
| His errors up and now he finds | O |
| His moon tann'd Mab as somewhat sick | Z |
| And love knows tender as a chick | Z |
| Upon six plump dandillions high | C |
| Rear'd lies her elvish majesty | B |
| Whose woolly bubbles seem'd to drown | R |
| Her Mabship in obedient down | R |
| For either sheet was spread the caul | A2 |
| That doth the infant's face enthral | B2 |
| When it is born by some enstyl'd | B |
| The lucky omen of the child | B |
| And next to these two blankets o'er | C2 |
| Cast of the finest gossamore | C2 |
| And then a rug of carded wool | D2 |
| Which sponge like drinking in the dull | E2 |
| Light of the moon seemed to comply | C |
| Cloud like the dainty deity | B |
| Thus soft she lies and overhead | B |
| A spinner's circle is bespread | B |
| With cob web curtains from the roof | F2 |
| So neatly sunk as that no proof | F2 |
| Of any tackling can declare | C2 |
| What gives it hanging in the air | C2 |
| The fringe about this are those threads | O |
| Broke at the loss of maidenheads | O |
| And all behung with these pure pearls | O |
| Dropp'd from the eyes of ravish'd girls | O |
| Or writhing brides when panting they | B |
| Give unto love the straiter way | B |
| For music now he has the cries | O |
| Of feigned lost virginities | O |
| The which the elves make to excite | B |
| A more unconquered appetite | B |
| The king's undrest and now upon | R |
| The gnat's watchword the elves are gone | R |
| And now the bed and Mab possess'd | B |
| Of this great little kingly guest | B |
| We'll nobly think what's to be done | R |
| He'll do no doubt this flax is spun | R |
Robert Herrick
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