The Apparition Of His, Mistress, Calling Him To Elysium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB C DDCCEEFFGGHHIIJJKKLL MMNOPPQQRSKKKKTUFFVV QQCCWWFFQQQQMMBXYYZZ A2A2B2B2QQ| THE APPARITION OF HIS MISTRESS | A |
| CALLING HIM TO ELYSIUM | B |
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| DESUNT NONNULLA | C |
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| Come then and like two doves with silvery wings | D |
| Let our souls fly to th' shades wherever springs | D |
| Sit smiling in the meads where balm and oil | C |
| Roses and cassia crown the untill'd soil | C |
| Where no disease reigns or infection comes | E |
| To blast the air but amber gris and gums | E |
| This that and ev'ry thicket doth transpire | F |
| More sweet than storax from the hallow'd fire | F |
| Where ev'ry tree a wealthy issue bears | G |
| Of fragrant apples blushing plums or pears | G |
| And all the shrubs with sparkling spangles shew | H |
| Like morning sun shine tinselling the dew | H |
| Here in green meadows sits eternal May | I |
| Purfling the margents while perpetual day | I |
| So double gilds the air as that no night | J |
| Can ever rust th' enamel of the light | J |
| Here naked younglings handsome striplings run | K |
| Their goals for virgins' kisses which when done | K |
| Then unto dancing forth the learned round | L |
| Commix'd they meet with endless roses crown'd | L |
| And here we'll sit on primrose banks and see | M |
| Love's chorus led by Cupid and we'll he | M |
| Two loving followers too unto the grove | N |
| Where poets sing the stories of our love | O |
| There thou shalt hear divine Musaeus sing | P |
| Of Hero and Leander then I'll bring | P |
| Thee to the stand where honour'd Homer reads | Q |
| His Odyssees and his high Iliads | Q |
| About whose throne the crowd of poets throng | R |
| To hear the incantation of his tongue | S |
| To Linus then to Pindar and that done | K |
| I'll bring thee Herrick to Anacreon | K |
| Quaffing his full crown'd bowls of burning wine | K |
| And in his raptures speaking lines of thine | K |
| Like to his subject and as his frantic | T |
| Looks shew him truly Bacchanalian like | U |
| Besmear'd with grapes welcome he shall thee thither | F |
| Where both may rage both drink and dance together | F |
| Then stately Virgil witty Ovid by | V |
| Whom fair Corinna sits and doth comply | V |
| With ivory wrists his laureat head and steeps | Q |
| His eye in dew of kisses while he sleeps | Q |
| Then soft Catullus sharp fang'd Martial | C |
| And towering Lucan Horace Juvenal | C |
| And snaky Persius these and those whom rage | W |
| Dropt for the jars of heaven fill'd t' engage | W |
| All times unto their frenzies thou shalt there | F |
| Behold them in a spacious theatre | F |
| Among which glories crown'd with sacred bays | Q |
| And flatt'ring ivy two recite their plays | Q |
| Beaumont and Fletcher swans to whom all ears | Q |
| Listen while they like sirens in their spheres | Q |
| Sing their Evadne and still more for thee | M |
| There yet remains to know than thou canst see | M |
| By glimm'ring of a fancy Do but come | B |
| And there I'll shew thee that capacious room | X |
| In which thy father Jonson now is placed | Y |
| As in a globe of radiant fire and graced | Y |
| To be in that orb crown'd that doth include | Z |
| Those prophets of the former magnitude | Z |
| And he one chief But hark I hear the cock | A2 |
| The bell man of the night proclaim the clock | A2 |
| Of late struck One and now I see the prime | B2 |
| Of day break from the pregnant east 'tis time | B2 |
| I vanish more I had to say | Q |
| But night determines here Away | Q |
Robert Herrick
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