Prais'd Be Diana's Fair And Harmless Light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGHG IJIK LL| Prais'd be Diana's fair and harmless light | A |
| Prais'd be the dews wherewith she moists the ground | B |
| Prais'd be her beams the glory of the night | A |
| Prais'd be her power by which all powers abound | B |
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| Prais'd be her nymphs with whom she decks the woods | C |
| Prais'd be her knights in whom true honour lives | D |
| Prais'd be that force by which she moves the floods | E |
| Let that Diana shine which all these gives | D |
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| In heaven queen she is among the spheres | F |
| In aye she mistress like makes all things pure | G |
| Eternity in her oft change she bears | H |
| She beauty is by her the fair endure | G |
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| Time wears her not she doth his chariot guide | I |
| Mortality below her orb is plac'd | J |
| By her the virtue of the stars down slide | I |
| In her is virtue's perfect image cast | K |
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| A knowledge pure it is her worth to know | L |
| With Circes let them dwell that think not so | L |
Sir Walter Raleigh
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