Upon A Black Twist Rounding The Arm Of The Countess Of Carlisle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGG| I saw about her spotless wrist | A |
| Of blackest silk a curious twist | A |
| Which circumvolving gently there | B |
| Enthrall'd her arm as prisoner | C |
| Dark was the jail but as if light | D |
| Had met t'engender with the night | D |
| Or so as darkness made a stay | E |
| To show at once both night and day | E |
| One fancy more but if there be | F |
| Such freedom in captivity | F |
| I beg of Love that ever I | G |
| May in like chains of darkness lie | G |
Robert Herrick
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