To Music, To Becalm His Fever Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEEED FDFGHHBIIIB JBJBBBKLLLK| Charm me asleep and melt me so | A |
| With thy delicious numbers | B |
| That being ravish'd hence I go | A |
| Away in easy slumbers | B |
| Ease my sick head | C |
| And make my bed | C |
| Thou power that canst sever | D |
| From me this ill | E |
| And quickly still | E |
| Though thou not kill | E |
| My fever | D |
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| Thou sweetly canst convert the same | F |
| From a consuming fire | D |
| Into a gentle licking flame | F |
| And make it thus expire | G |
| Then make me weep | H |
| My pains asleep | H |
| And give me such reposes | B |
| That I poor I | I |
| May think thereby | I |
| I live and die | I |
| 'Mongst roses | B |
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| Fall on me like the silent dew | J |
| Or like those maiden showers | B |
| Which by the peep of day do strew | J |
| A baptim o'er the flowers | B |
| Melt melt my pains | B |
| With thy soft strains | B |
| That having ease me given | K |
| With full delight | L |
| I leave this light | L |
| And take my flight | L |
| For Heaven | K |
Robert Herrick
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