Child And Maiden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGF FHFHFIFI JKJKKLKL| Ah Chloris could I now but sit | A |
| As unconcern'd as when | B |
| Your infant beauty could beget | C |
| No happiness or pain | D |
| When I the dawn used to admire | E |
| And praised the coming day | F |
| I little thought the rising fire | G |
| Would take my rest away | F |
| - | |
| Your charms in harmless childhood lay | F |
| Like metals in a mine | H |
| Age from no face takes more away | F |
| Than youth conceal'd in thine | H |
| But as your charms insensibly | F |
| To their perfection prest | I |
| So love as unperceived did fly | F |
| And centred in my breast | I |
| - | |
| My passion with your beauty grew | J |
| While Cupid at my heart | K |
| Still as his mother favour'd you | J |
| Threw a new flaming dart | K |
| Each gloried in their wanton part | K |
| To make a lover he | L |
| Employ'd the utmost of his art | K |
| To make a beauty she | L |
Sir Charles Sedley
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