A Blue Love Song. To Miss----- Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDCCEE FFGHCCDDIIDD CEJJDDKKDDFFLL| Air Come live with me and be my love | A |
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| Come wed with me and we will write | B |
| My Blue of Blues from morn till night | B |
| Chased from our classic souls shall be | C |
| All thoughts of vulgar progeny | C |
| And thou shalt walk through smiling rows | D |
| Of chubby duodecimos | D |
| While I to match thy products nearly | C |
| Shall lie in of a quarto yearly | C |
| 'Tis true even books entail some trouble | E |
| But live productions give one double | E |
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| Correcting children is such bother | F |
| While printers' devils correct the other | F |
| Just think my own Malthusian dear | G |
| How much more decent 'tis to hear | H |
| From male or female as it may be | C |
| How is your book than How's your baby | C |
| And whereas physic and wet nurses | D |
| Do much exhaust paternal purses | D |
| Our books if rickety may go | I |
| And be well dry nurst in the Row | I |
| And when God wills to take them hence | D |
| Are buried at the Row's expense | D |
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| Besides as 'tis well proved by thee | C |
| In thy own Works vol | E |
| The march just now of population | J |
| So much outscrips all moderation | J |
| That even prolific herring shoals | D |
| Keep pace not with our erring souls | D |
| Oh far more proper and well bred | K |
| To stick to writing books instead | K |
| And show the world how two Blue lovers | D |
| Can coalesce like two book covers | D |
| Sheep skin or calf or such wise leather | F |
| Lettered at back and stitched together | F |
| Fondly as first the binder fixt 'em | L |
| With naught but literature betwixt 'em | L |
Thomas Moore
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