The Welcome To Sack Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFGGHHIJKKLMEE NNNNOOPPQQRRSSOORRTT UUVVNNRRWWXXRRYYRRZZ A2CNNB2C2D2D2E2E2BCN NYYF2F2G2G2H2I2J2J2N NTTK2L2M2M2| So soft streams meet so springs with gladder smiles | A |
| Meet after long divorcement by the isles | A |
| When love the child of likeness urgeth on | B |
| Their crystal natures to a union | C |
| So meet stolen kisses when the moony nights | D |
| Call forth fierce lovers to their wish'd delights | D |
| So kings and queens meet when desire convinces | E |
| All thoughts but such as aim at getting princes | F |
| As I meet thee Soul of my life and fame | G |
| Eternal lamp of love whose radiant flame | G |
| Out glares the heaven's Osiris H and thy gleams | H |
| Out shine the splendour of his mid day beams | H |
| Welcome O welcome my illustrious spouse | I |
| Welcome as are the ends unto my vows | J |
| Aye far more welcome than the happy soil | K |
| The sea scourged merchant after all his toil | K |
| Salutes with tears of joy when fires betray | L |
| The smoky chimneys of his Ithaca | M |
| Where hast thou been so long from my embraces | E |
| Poor pitied exile Tell me did thy graces | E |
| Fly discontented hence and for a time | N |
| Did rather choose to bless another clime | N |
| Or went'st thou to this end the more to move me | N |
| By thy short absence to desire and love thee | N |
| Why frowns my sweet Why won't my saint confer | O |
| Favours on me her fierce idolater | O |
| Why are those looks those looks the which have been | P |
| Time past so fragrant sickly now drawn in | P |
| Like a dull twilight Tell me and the fault | Q |
| I'll expiate with sulphur hair and salt | Q |
| And with the crystal humour of the spring | R |
| Purge hence the guilt and kill this quarrelling | R |
| Wo't thou not smile or tell me what's amiss | S |
| Have I been cold to hug thee too remiss | S |
| Too temp'rate in embracing Tell me has desire | O |
| To thee ward died i' th' embers and no fire | O |
| Left in this rak'd up ash heap as a mark | R |
| To testify the glowing of a spark | R |
| Have I divorc'd thee only to combine | T |
| In hot adult'ry with another wine | T |
| True I confess I left thee and appeal | U |
| 'Twas done by me more to confirm my zeal | U |
| And double my affection on thee as do those | V |
| Whose love grows more inflam'd by being foes | V |
| But to forsake thee ever could there be | N |
| A thought of such like possibility | N |
| When thou thyself dar'st say thy isles shall lack | R |
| Grapes before Herrick leaves canary sack | R |
| Thou mak'st me airy active to be borne | W |
| Like Iphiclus upon the tops of corn | W |
| Thou mak'st me nimble as the winged hours | X |
| To dance and caper on the heads of flowers | X |
| And ride the sunbeams Can there be a thing | R |
| Under the heavenly Isis I that can bring | R |
| More love unto my life or can present | Y |
| My genius with a fuller blandishment | Y |
| Illustrious idol could th' Egyptians seek | R |
| Help from the garlic onion and the leek | R |
| And pay no vows to thee who wast their best | Z |
| God and far more transcendent than the rest | Z |
| Had Cassius that weak water drinker known | A2 |
| Thee in thy vine or had but tasted one | C |
| Small chalice of thy frantic liquor he | N |
| As the wise Cato had approv'd of thee | N |
| Had not Jove's son J that brave Tirynthian swain | B2 |
| Invited to the Thesbian banquet ta'en | C2 |
| Full goblets of thy gen'rous blood his sprite | D2 |
| Ne'er had kept heat for fifty maids that night | D2 |
| Come come and kiss me love and lust commends | E2 |
| Thee and thy beauties kiss we will be friends | E2 |
| Too strong for fate to break us Look upon | B |
| Me with that full pride of complexion | C |
| As queens meet queens or come thou unto me | N |
| As Cleopatra came to Anthony | N |
| When her high carriage did at once present | Y |
| To the triumvir love and wonderment | Y |
| Swell up my nerves with spirit let my blood | F2 |
| Run through my veins like to a hasty flood | F2 |
| Fill each part full of fire active to do | G2 |
| What thy commanding soul shall put it to | G2 |
| And till I turn apostate to thy love | H2 |
| Which here I vow to serve do not remove | I2 |
| Thy fires from me but Apollo's curse | J2 |
| Blast these like actions or a thing that's worse | J2 |
| When these circumstants shall but live to see | N |
| The time that I prevaricate from thee | N |
| Call me the son of beer and then confine | T |
| Me to the tap the toast the turf let wine | T |
| Ne'er shine upon me may my numbers all | K2 |
| Run to a sudden death and funeral | L2 |
| And last when thee dear spouse I disavow | M2 |
| Ne'er may prophetic Daphne crown my brow | M2 |
Robert Herrick
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