Ode (when, To My Deadly Pleasure) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJK BLM NOP QRS ETF UVW XXY FFFFFWhen to my deadly pleasure | A |
When to my lively torment | B |
Lady mine eyes remained | C |
Joined alas to your beams | D |
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With violence of heavenly | E |
Beauty tied to virtue | F |
Reason abashed retired | G |
Gladly my senses yielded | H |
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Gladly my senses yielding | I |
Thus to betray my heart's fort | J |
Left me devoid of all life | K |
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They to the beamy suns went | B |
Where by the death of all deaths | L |
Find to what harm they hastened | M |
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Like to the silly Sylvan | N |
Burned by the light he best liked | O |
When with a fire he first met | P |
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Yet yet a life to their death | Q |
Lady you have reserved | R |
Lady the life of all love | S |
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For though my sense be from me | E |
And I be dead who want sense | T |
Yet do we both live in you | F |
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Turned anew by your means | U |
Unto the flower that aye turns | V |
As you alas my sun bends | W |
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Thus do I fall to rise thus | X |
Thus do I die to live thus | X |
Changed to a change I change not | Y |
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Thus may I not be from you | F |
Thus be my senses on you | F |
Thus what I think is of you | F |
Thus what I seek is in you | F |
All what I am it is you | F |
Sir Philip Sidney
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