Song. Good Counsel To A Young Maid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBB CCC DDD EEE FFF| GAZE not on thy beauty's pride | A |
| Tender maid in the false tide | A |
| That from lovers' eyes doth slide | A |
| Let thy faithful crystal show | B |
| How thy colours come and go | B |
| Beauty takes a foil from woe | B |
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| Love that in those smooth streams lies | C |
| Under pity's fair disguise | C |
| Will thy melting heart surprise | C |
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| Nets of passion's finest thread | D |
| Snaring poems will be spread | D |
| All to catch thy maidenhead | D |
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| Then beware for those that cure | E |
| Love's disease themselves endure | E |
| For reward a calenture | E |
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| Rather let the lover pine | F |
| Than his pale cheek should assign | F |
| A perpetual blush to thine | F |
Thomas Carew
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