The School Or Pearl Of Putney, The Mistress Of All Singular Manners, Mistress Portman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGHBBIIJJKL AAMMNNOO| Whether I was myself or else did see | A |
| Out of myself that glorious hierarchy | A |
| Or whether those in orders rare or these | B |
| Made up one state of sixty Venuses | B |
| Or whether fairies syrens nymphs they were | C |
| Or muses on their mountain sitting there | D |
| Or some enchanted place I do not know | E |
| Or Sharon where eternal roses grow | E |
| This I am sure I ravished stood as one | F |
| Confus'd in utter admiration | F |
| Methought I saw them stir and gently move | G |
| And look as all were capable of love | H |
| And in their motion smelt much like to flowers | B |
| Inspir'd by th' sunbeams after dews and showers | B |
| There did I see the reverend rectress stand | I |
| Who with her eye's gleam or a glance of hand | I |
| Those spirits raised and with like precepts then | J |
| As with a magic laid them all again | J |
| A happy realm When no compulsive law | K |
| Or fear of it but love keeps all in awe | L |
| Live you great mistress of your arts and be | A |
| A nursing mother so to majesty | A |
| As those your ladies may in time be seen | M |
| For grace and carriage everyone a queen | M |
| One birth their parents gave them but their new | N |
| And better being they receive from you | N |
| Man's former birth is graceless but the state | O |
| Of life comes in when he's regenerate | O |
Robert Herrick
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