Rosaline Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEDED FBFBDBGBHD IBIBDJKJKD LMLMDBJBJD DDDDDD| Like to the clear in highest sphere | A |
| Where all imperial glory shines | B |
| Of selfsame colour is her hair | C |
| Whether unfolded or in twines | B |
| Heigh ho fair Rosaline | D |
| Her eyes are sapphires set in snow | D |
| Resembling heaven by every wink | E |
| The gods do fear whenas they glow | D |
| And I do tremble when I think | E |
| Heigh ho would she were mine | D |
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| Her cheeks are like the blushing cloud | F |
| That beautifies Aurora's face | B |
| Or like the silver crimson shroud | F |
| That Phoebus' smiling looks doth grace | B |
| Heigh ho fair Rosaline | D |
| Her lips are like two budded roses | B |
| Whom ranks of lilies neighbour nigh | G |
| Within whose bounds she balm encloses | B |
| Apt to entice a deity | H |
| Heigh ho would she were mine | D |
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| Her neck like to a stately tower | I |
| Where Love himself imprison'd lies | B |
| To watch for glances every hour | I |
| From her divine and sacred eyes | B |
| Heigh ho fair Rosaline | D |
| Her paps are centres of delight | J |
| Her breasts are orbs of heavenly frame | K |
| Where Nature moulds the dew of light | J |
| To feed perfection with the same | K |
| Heigh ho would she were mine | D |
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| With orient pearl with ruby red | L |
| With marble white with sapphire blue | M |
| Her body every way is fed | L |
| Yet soft to touch and sweet in view | M |
| Heigh ho fair Rosaline | D |
| Nature herself her shape admires | B |
| The gods are wounded in her sight | J |
| And Love forsakes his heavenly fires | B |
| And at her eyes his brand doth light | J |
| Heigh ho would she were mine | D |
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| Then muse not Nymphs though I bemoan | D |
| The absence of fair Rosaline | D |
| Since for a fair there 's fairer none | D |
| Nor for her virtues so divine | D |
| Heigh ho fair Rosaline | D |
| Heigh ho my heart would God that she were mine | D |
Thomas Lodge
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