What Kind Of Mistress He Would Have Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFFGGHHIJKKLL| Be the mistress of my choice | A |
| Clean in manners clear in voice | A |
| Be she witty more than wise | B |
| Pure enough though not precise | C |
| Be she showing in her dress | D |
| Like a civil wilderness | E |
| That the curious may detect | F |
| Order in a sweet neglect | F |
| Be she rolling in her eye | G |
| Tempting all the passers by | G |
| And each ringlet of her hair | H |
| An enchantment or a snare | H |
| For to catch the lookers on | I |
| But herself held fast by none | J |
| Let her Lucrece all day be | K |
| Thais in the night to me | K |
| Be she such as neither will | L |
| Famish me nor overfill | L |
Robert Herrick
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