On A Lady With A Foul Breath Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFGHIIJJKKLLMM NNKOPPQQRRJJ| Art thou alive It cannot be | A |
| There's so much Rottenness in Thee | A |
| Corruption only is in Death | B |
| And what's more Putrid than thy Breath | B |
| Think not you Live because you Speak | C |
| For Graves such hollow Sounds can make | D |
| And Respiration can't suffice | E |
| For Vapours do from Caverns rise | F |
| From Thee such noisom Stenches come | G |
| Thy Mouth betrays thy Breast a Tomb | H |
| Thy Body is a Corpse that goes | I |
| By Magick rais'd from its Repose | I |
| A Pestilence that walks by Day | J |
| But falls at Night to Worms and Clay | J |
| But I will to my Chloris run | K |
| Who will not let me be undone | K |
| The Sweets her Virgin Breath contains | L |
| Are fitted to remove my Pains | L |
| There will I healing Nectar sip | M |
| And to be sav'd approach her Lip | M |
| Tho' if I touch the matchless Dame | N |
| I'm sure to burn with inward Flame | N |
| Thus when I wou'd one Danger shun | K |
| I'm strait upon another thrown | O |
| I seek a Cure one Sore to ease | P |
| Yet in that Cure's a New Disease | P |
| But Love tho' fatal still can bless | Q |
| And greater Dangers hide the less | Q |
| I'll go where Passion bids me fly | R |
| And chuse my Death since I must Dye | R |
| As Doves pursu'd by Birds of Prey | J |
| Venture with milder Man to stay | J |
Thomas Parnell
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