A Remedy For Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFGGEEGG HHIIJJKKL MMNNGG GGHHOOBBPPQQMMGGAAMM GGRRSSMMSSTTBBUUVHGG WWGGXXYZA2A2B2B2GGC2 C2| Philoclea and Pamela sweet | A |
| By chance in one great house did meet | A |
| And meeting did so join in heart | B |
| That th' one from th' other could not part | B |
| And who indeed not made of stones | C |
| Would separate such lovely ones | D |
| The one is beautiful and fair | E |
| As orient pearls and rubies are | F |
| And sweet as after gentle showers | G |
| The breath is of some thousand flowers | G |
| For due proportion such an air | E |
| Circles the other and so fair | E |
| That it her brownness beautifies | G |
| And doth enchant the wisest eyes | G |
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| Have you not seen on some great day | H |
| Two goodly horses white and bay | H |
| Which were so beauteous in their pride | I |
| You knew not which to choose or ride | I |
| Such are these two you scarce can tell | J |
| Which is the daintier bonny belle | J |
| And they are such as by my troth | K |
| I had been sick with love of both | K |
| And might have sadly said 'Good night | L |
| Discretion and good fortune quite ' | - |
| But that young Cupid my old master | M |
| Presented me a sovereign plaster | M |
| Mopsa ev'n Mopsa precious pet | N |
| Whose lips of marble teeth of jet | N |
| Are spells and charms of strong defence | G |
| To conjure down concupiscence | G |
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| How oft have I been reft of sense | G |
| By gazing on their excellence | G |
| But meeting Mopsa in my way | H |
| And looking on her face of clay | H |
| Been healed and cured and made as sound | O |
| As though I ne'er had had a wound | O |
| And when in tables of my heart | B |
| Love wrought such things as bred my smart | B |
| Mopsa would come with face of clout | P |
| And in an instant wipe them out | P |
| And when their faces made me sick | Q |
| Mopsa would come with face of brick | Q |
| A little heated in the fire | M |
| And break the neck of my desire | M |
| Now from their face I turn mine eyes | G |
| But cruel panthers they surprise | G |
| Me with their breath that incense sweet | A |
| Which only for the gods is meet | A |
| And jointly from them doth respire | M |
| Like both the Indies set on fire | M |
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| Which so o'ercomes man's ravished sense | G |
| That souls to follow it fly hence | G |
| No such like smell you if you range | R |
| To th' Stocks or Cornhill's square Exchange | R |
| There stood I still as any stock | S |
| Till Mopsa with her puddle dock | S |
| Her compound or electuary | M |
| Made of old ling and young canary | M |
| Bloat herring cheese and voided physic | S |
| Being somewhat troubled with a phthisic | S |
| Did cough and fetch a sigh so deep | T |
| As did her very bottom sweep | T |
| Whereby to all she did impart | B |
| How love lay rankling at her heart | B |
| Which when I smelt desire was slain | U |
| And they breathed forth perfumes in vain | U |
| Their angel voice surprised me now | V |
| But Mopsa her Too whit Too whoo | H |
| Descending through her oboe nose | G |
| Did that distemper soon compose | G |
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| And therefore O thou precious owl | W |
| The wise Minerva's only fowl | W |
| What at thy shrine shall I devise | G |
| To offer up a sacrifice | G |
| Hang AEsculapius and Apollo | X |
| And Ovid with his precious shallow | X |
| Mopsa is love's best medicine | Y |
| True water to a lover's wine | Z |
| Nay she's the yellow antidote | A2 |
| Both bred and born to cut Love's throat | A2 |
| Be but my second and stand by | B2 |
| Mopsa and I'll them both defy | B2 |
| And all else of those gallant races | G |
| Who wear infection in their faces | G |
| For thy face that Medusa's shield | C2 |
| Will bring me safe out of the field | C2 |
Sir Philip Sidney
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