You Meaner Beauties Of The Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEFF GHGHH| You meaner beauties of the night | A |
| That poorly satisfy our eyes | B |
| More by your number than your light | A |
| You common people of the skies | B |
| What are you when the sun shall rise | B |
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| You curious chanters of the wood | C |
| That warble forth Dame Nature's lays | D |
| Thinking your voices understood | C |
| By your weak accents what's your praise | D |
| When Philomel her voice shall raise | D |
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| You violets that first appear | E |
| By your pure purple mantles known | F |
| Like the proud virgins of the year | E |
| As if the spring were all your own | F |
| What are you when the rose is blown | F |
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| So when my mistress shall be seen | G |
| In form and beauty of her mind | H |
| By virtue first then choice a queen | G |
| Tell me if she were not design'd | H |
| Th' eclipse and glory of her kind | H |
Sir Henry Wotton
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