When Love, Who Ruled Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDE FGFGDE HIJIDE KLKLDE MNMNDE OPOQDE RSRSDE TMTMDE UGUGDE VWVWDE| When Love who ruled as Admiral o'er | A |
| Has rosy mother's isles of light | B |
| Was cruising off the Paphian shore | C |
| A sail at sunset hove in sight | B |
| A chase a chase my Cupids all | D |
| Said Love the little Admiral | E |
| - | |
| Aloft the winged sailors sprung | F |
| And swarming up the mast like bees | G |
| The snow white sails expanding flung | F |
| Like broad magnolias to the breeze | G |
| Yo ho yo ho my Cupids all | D |
| Said Love the little Admiral | E |
| - | |
| The chase was o'er the bark was caught | H |
| The winged crew her freight explored | I |
| And found 'twas just as Love had thought | J |
| For all was contraband aboard | I |
| A prize a prize my Cupids all | D |
| Said Love the little Admiral | E |
| - | |
| Safe stowed in many a package there | K |
| And labelled slyly o'er as Glass | L |
| Were lots of all the illegal ware | K |
| Love's Custom House forbids to pass | L |
| O'erhaul o'erhaul my Cupids all | D |
| Said Love the little Admiral | E |
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| False curls they found of every hue | M |
| With rosy blushes ready made | N |
| And teeth of ivory good as new | M |
| For veterans in the smiling trade | N |
| Ho ho ho ho my Cupids all | D |
| Said Love the little Admiral | E |
| - | |
| Mock sighs too kept in bags for use | O |
| Like breezes bought of Lapland seers | P |
| Lay ready here to be let loose | O |
| When wanted in young spinsters' ears | Q |
| Ha ha ha ha my Cupids all | D |
| Said Love the little Admiral | E |
| - | |
| False papers next on board were found | R |
| Sham invoices of flames and darts | S |
| Professedly for Paphos bound | R |
| But meant for Hymen's golden marts | S |
| For shame for shame my Cupids all | D |
| Said Love the little Admiral | E |
| - | |
| Nay still to every fraud awake | T |
| Those pirates all Love's signals knew | M |
| And hoisted oft his flag to make | T |
| Rich wards and heiresses bring to | M |
| A foe a foe my Cupids all | D |
| Said Love the little Admiral | E |
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| This must not be the boy exclaims | U |
| In vain I rule the Paphian seas | G |
| If Love's and Beauty's sovereign names | U |
| Are lent to cover frauds like these | G |
| Prepare prepare my Cupids all | D |
| Said Love the little Admiral | E |
| - | |
| Each Cupid stood with lighted match | V |
| A broadside struck the smuggling foe | W |
| And swept the whole unhallowed batch | V |
| Of Falsehood to the depths below | W |
| Huzza huzza my Cupids all | D |
| Said Love the little Admiral | E |
Thomas Moore
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