The Invitation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFGHHIJKLMNEE JJ| To sup with thee thou didst me home invite | A |
| And mad'st a promise that mine appetite | A |
| Should meet and tire on such lautitious meat | B |
| The like not Heliogabalus did eat | B |
| And richer wine would'st give to me thy guest | C |
| Than Roman Sylla pour'd out at his feast | D |
| I came 'tis true and look'd for fowl of price | E |
| The bastard Phoenix bird of Paradise | E |
| And for no less than aromatic wine | F |
| Of maidens blush commix'd with jessamine | G |
| Clean was the hearth the mantle larded jet | H |
| Which wanting Lar and smoke hung weeping wet | H |
| At last i' th' noon of winter did appear | I |
| A ragg'd soused neats foot with sick vinegar | J |
| And in a burnish'd flagonet stood by | K |
| Beer small as comfort dead as charity | L |
| At which amazed and pond'ring on the food | M |
| How cold it was and how it chill'd my blood | N |
| I curst the master and I damn'd the souce | E |
| And swore I'd got the ague of the house | E |
| Well when to eat thou dost me next desire | J |
| I'll bring a fever since thou keep'st no fire | J |
Robert Herrick
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