Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF FHFH FIFI JKJK KLKL MNON FLFL| Ah Chloris that I now could sit | A |
| As unconcerned as when | B |
| Your infant beauty could beget | C |
| No pleasure nor no pain | D |
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| When I the dawn used to admire | E |
| And praised the coming day | F |
| I little thought the growing fire | G |
| Must take my rest away | F |
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| Your charms in harmless childhood lay | F |
| Like metals in the mine | H |
| Age from no face took more away | F |
| Than youth concealed in thine | H |
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| But as your charms insensibly | F |
| To your perfection pressed | I |
| Fond Love as unperceived did fly | F |
| And in my bosom rest | I |
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| My passion with your beauty grew | J |
| And Cupid at my heart | K |
| Still as his mother favored you | J |
| Threw a new flaming dart | K |
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| Each gloried in their wanton part | K |
| To make a lover he | L |
| Employed the utmost of his art | K |
| To make a beauty she | L |
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| Though now I slowly bend to love | M |
| Uncertain of my fate | N |
| If your fair self my chains approve | O |
| I shall my freedom hate | N |
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| Lovers like dying men may well | F |
| At first disordered be | L |
| Since none alive can truly tell | F |
| What fortune they must see | L |
Sir Charles Sedley
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