The Description Of A Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDBEECCCCCCFFGHCC IIJJEECCKKLMNOCCCCPP QQRSTTUUFFVVWWFFXXCC YZA2A2KKB2B2YZDBGC2K KKKC2BBB

Whose head befringed with bescattered tressesA
Shows like Apollo's when the morn he dresses BB
Or like Aurora when with pearl she setsC
Her long dishevell'd rose crown'd trammeletsC
Her forehead smooth full polish'd bright and highD
Bears in itself a graceful majestyB
Under the which two crawling eyebrows twineE
Like to the tendrils of a flatt'ring vineE
Under whose shade two starry sparkling eyesC
Are beautifi'd with fair fring'd canopiesC
Her comely nose with uniformal graceC
Like purest white stands in the middle placeC
Parting the pair as we may well supposeC
Each cheek resembling still a damask roseC
Which like a garden manifestly showF
How roses lilies and carnations growF
Which sweetly mixed both with white and redG
Like rose leaves white and red seem C mingledH
Then nature for a sweet allurement setsC
Two smelling swelling bashful cherryletsC
The which with ruby redness being tipp'dI
Do speak a virgin merry cherry lipp'dI
Over the which a neat sweet skin is drawnJ
Which makes them show like roses under lawnJ
These be the ruby portals and divineE
Which ope themselves to show a holy shrineE
Whose breath is rich perfume that to the senseC
Smells like the burn'd Sabean frankincenseC
In which the tongue though but a member smallK
Stands guarded with a rosy hilly wallK
And her white teeth which in the gums are setL
Like pearl and gold make one rich cabinetM
Next doth her chin with dimpled beauty striveN
For his white plump and smooth prerogativeO
At whose fair top to please the sight there growsC
The fairest D image of a blushing roseC
Mov'd by the chin whose motion causeth thisC
That both her lips do part do meet do kissC
Her ears which like two labyrinths are plac'dP
On either side with rich rare jewels grac'dP
Moving a question whether that by themQ
The gem is grac'd or they grac'd by the gemQ
But the foundation of the architectR
Is the swan staining fair rare stately neckS
Which with ambitious humbleness stands underT
Bearing aloft this rich round world of wonderT
Her breast a place for beauty's throne most fitU
Bears up two globes where love and pleasure sitU
Which headed with two rich round rubies showF
Like wanton rosebuds growing out of snowF
And in the milky valley that's betweenV
Sits Cupid kissing of his mother queenV
Fingering the paps that feel like sieved silkW
And press'd a little they will weep pure milkW
Then comes the belly seated next belowF
Like a fair mountain in Riphean snowF
Where Nature in a whiteness without spotX
Hath in the middle tied a Gordian knotX
Now love invites me to survey her thighsC
Swelling in likeness like two crystal skiesC
Which to the knees by Nature fastened onY
Derive their ever well 'greed motionZ
Her legs with two clear calves like silver tri'dA2
Kindly swell up with little pretty prideA2
Leaving a distance for the comely E smallK
To beautify the leg and foot withalK
Then lowly yet most lovely stand the feetB2
Round short and clear like pounded spices sweetB2
And whatsoever thing they tread uponY
They make it scent like bruised cinnamonZ
The lovely shoulders now allure the eyeD
To see two tablets of pure ivoryB
From which two arms like branches seem to spreadG
With tender rind F and silver colouredC2
With little hands and fingers long and smallK
To grace a lute a viol virginalK
In length each finger doth his next excelK
Each richly headed with a pearly shellK
Thus every part in contrarietyC2
Meet in the whole and make a harmonyB
As divers strings do singly disagreeB
But form'd by number make sweet melodyB

Robert Herrick



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