To A. L. Persuasions To Love. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDDEEFGHHIIJK LLMMNNAAOOPPKKQRSSTT UUVVWWKKXXYMLLZZAAA2 A2B2C2SSDDD2D2E2F2G2 G2H2H2I2I2AAKKDDDD| THINK not 'cause men flattering say | A |
| You're fresh as April sweet as May | A |
| Bright as is the morning star | B |
| That you are so or though you are | B |
| Be not therefore proud and deem | C |
| All men unworthy your esteem | C |
| For being so you lose the pleasure | D |
| Of being fair since that rich treasure | D |
| Of rare beauty and sweet feature | D |
| Was bestow'd on you by nature | D |
| To be enjoy'd and 'twere a sin | E |
| There to be scarce where she hath bin | E |
| So prodigal of her best graces | F |
| Thus common beauties and mean faces | G |
| Shall have more pastime and enjoy | H |
| The sport you lose by being coy | H |
| Did the thing for which I sue | I |
| Only concern myself not you | I |
| Were men so framed as they alone | J |
| Reap'd all the pleasure women none | K |
| Then had you reason to be scant | L |
| But 'twere a madness not to grant | L |
| That which affords if you consent | M |
| To you the giver more content | M |
| Than me the beggar Oh then be | N |
| Kind to yourself if not to me | N |
| Starve not yourself because you may | A |
| Thereby make me pine away | A |
| Nor let brittle beauty make | O |
| You your wiser thoughts forsake | O |
| For that lovely face will fail | P |
| Beauty's sweet but beauty's frail | P |
| 'Tis sooner past 'tis sooner done | K |
| Than summer's rain or winter's sun | K |
| Most fleeting when it is most dear | Q |
| 'Tis gone while we but say 'tis here | R |
| These curious locks so aptly twined | S |
| Whose every hair a soul doth bind | S |
| Will change their auburn hue and grow | T |
| White and cold as winter's snow | T |
| That eye which now is Cupid's nest | U |
| Will prove his grave and all the rest | U |
| Will follow in the cheek chin nose | V |
| Nor lily shall be found nor rose | V |
| And what will then become of all | W |
| Those whom now you servants call | W |
| Like swallows when your summer's done | K |
| They'll fly and seek some warmer sun | K |
| Then wisely choose one to your friend | X |
| Whose love may when your beauties end | X |
| Remain still firm be provident | Y |
| And think before the summer's spent | M |
| Of following winter like the ant | L |
| In plenty hoard for time of scant | L |
| Cull out amongst the multitude | Z |
| Of lovers that seek to intrude | Z |
| Into your favour one that may | A |
| Love for an age not for a day | A |
| One that will quench your youthful fires | A2 |
| And feed in age your hot desires | A2 |
| For when the storms of time have moved | B2 |
| Waves on that cheek which was beloved | C2 |
| When a fair lady's face is pined | S |
| And yellow spread where once red shined | S |
| When beauty youth and all sweets leave her | D |
| Love may return but lover never | D |
| And old folks say there are no pains | D2 |
| Like itch of love in aged veins | D2 |
| O love me then and now begin it | E2 |
| Let us not lose this present minute | F2 |
| For time and age will work that wrack | G2 |
| Which time or age shall ne'er call back | G2 |
| The snake each year fresh skin resumes | H2 |
| And eagles change their aged plumes | H2 |
| The faded rose each spring receives | I2 |
| A fresh red tincture on her leaves | I2 |
| But if your beauties once decay | A |
| You never know a second May | A |
| O then be wise and whilst your season | K |
| Affords you days for sport do reason | K |
| Spend not in vain your life's short hour | D |
| But crop in time your beauty's flower | D |
| Which will away and doth together | D |
| Both bud and fade both blow and wither | D |
Thomas Carew
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