On ------ Embroydring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFFGGDDAAHI JKIIGLDDDDIIIFFF| How justly art when C lia aids so well | A |
| Contends her ms nature to excell | A |
| The slender needles in that hand create | B |
| Such forms as hers but of a better date | B |
| The silk is placd the winding traces laid | C |
| the gay scene with rising figures spread | D |
| here springing lillies opening roses dress | E |
| in such sweet colours so fixd a grace | F |
| they outdoe all but those wthin her face | F |
| the well turnd leaves if by the natrall shown | G |
| You'd think they both were workd or both had grown | G |
| So strange yet beautious birds are here designd | D |
| as if she had increasd the Ph nix kind | D |
| Sure had she livd wn poets tho below | A |
| Where meritt pleaded cou'd a heavn bestow | A |
| the wondrows product of her needle here | H |
| had made her self a goddess it a starr | I |
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| Oh may no moth so rare a piece approach | J |
| May nought corrupt it with unhallowd touch | K |
| May nothing but alas I wast my prayr | I |
| My wishes rise to loose themselves in air | I |
| This work wch angells wou'd not blush to own | G |
| Must once the common road of ruin run | L |
| then quickly fairest on yr life reflect | D |
| Nor all your downy hours of youth neglect | D |
| think you behold this lovely piece decayd | D |
| think you are brighter yet must sooner fade | D |
| then quitt your folly be no more severe | I |
| Why woud you have no difference appear | I |
| In how the ugly live how the fair | I |
| tell me Celie where the diffrence lyes | F |
| 'twixt those who Cant those who wont possess | F |
| When both alike are distanc't fm their bliss | F |
Thomas Parnell
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