Nature That Washed Her Hands In Milk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEDD FEGEHH IJIJDD KLKLDD DMDNOO| Nature that wahed her hands in milk | A |
| And had forgot to dry them | B |
| Instead of earth took snow and silk | A |
| At Love's request to try them | B |
| If she a mistress could compose | C |
| To please Love's fancy out of those | C |
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| Her eyes he would should be of light | D |
| A violet breath and lips of jelly | E |
| Her hair not black nor overbright | D |
| And of the softest down her belly | E |
| As for her inside he'd have it | D |
| Only of wantonness and wit | D |
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| At Love's entreaty such a one | F |
| Nature made but with her beauty | E |
| She hath fram'd a heart of stone | G |
| So as Love by ill destiny | E |
| Must die for her whom Nature gave him | H |
| Because her darling would not save him | H |
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| But Time which Nature doth despise | I |
| And rudely gives her love the lie | J |
| Makes hope a fool and sorrow wise | I |
| His hands do neither wash nor dry | J |
| But being made of steel and rust | D |
| Turns snow and silk and milk to dust | D |
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| The light the belly lips and breath | K |
| He dims discolors and destroys | L |
| With those he feeds but fills not death | K |
| Which sometimes were the food of joys | L |
| Yea Time doth dull each lively wit | D |
| And dries all wantonness with it | D |
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| Oh cruel Time which takes in trust | D |
| Our youth or joys and all we have | M |
| And pays us but with age and dust | D |
| Who in the dark and silent grave | N |
| When we have wandered all our ways | O |
| Shuts up the story of our days | O |
Sir Walter Raleigh
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