To His Learned Friend, M. Jo. Harmar, Physician To The College Of Westminster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGGG| When first I find those numbers thou dost write | A |
| To be most soft terse sweet and perpolite | A |
| Next when I see thee tow'ring in the sky | B |
| In an expansion no less large than high | B |
| Then in that compass sailing here and there | C |
| And with circumgyration everywhere | C |
| Following with love and active heat thy game | D |
| And then at last to truss the epigram | E |
| I must confess distinction none I see | F |
| Between Domitian's Martial then and thee | F |
| But this I know should Jupiter again | G |
| Descend from heaven to reconverse with men | G |
| The Roman language full and superfine | G |
| If Jove would speak he would accept of thine | G |
Robert Herrick
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