Cherry-ripe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DBDBCC EFEFCC| There is a garden in her face | A |
| Where roses and white lilies blow | B |
| A heavenly paradise is that place | A |
| Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow | B |
| There cherries grow which none may buy | C |
| Till Cherry ripe themselves do cry | C |
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| Those cherries fairly do enclose | D |
| Of orient pearl a double row | B |
| Which when her lovely laughter shows | D |
| They look like rose buds filled with snow | B |
| Yet them no peer nor prince can buy | C |
| Till Cherry ripe themselves do cry | C |
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| Her eyes like angels watch them still | E |
| Her brows like bended bows do stand | F |
| Threat'ning with piercing frowns to kill | E |
| All that attempt with eye or hand | F |
| Those sacred cherries to come nigh | C |
| Till Cherry ripe themselves do cry | C |
Thomas Campion
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