The Measure Of Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHIJJ| Give Beauty all her right | A |
| She's not to one form tied | B |
| Each shape yields fair delight | A |
| Where her perfections bide | B |
| Helen I grant might pleasing be | C |
| And Ros'mond was as sweet as she | C |
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| Some the quick eye commends | D |
| Some swelling lips and red | E |
| Pale looks have many friends | D |
| Through sacred sweetness bred | E |
| Meadows have flowers that pleasure move | F |
| Though roses are the flowers of love | G |
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| Free beauty is not bound | H |
| To one unmoved clime | I |
| She visits every ground | H |
| And favours every time | I |
| Let the old loves with mine compare | J |
| My sovereign is as sweet as fair | J |
Thomas Campion
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