To A Lady Very Well Known To The Whole Town Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGDDHHII JJKKLLMNOOGGPPPPPPII CCQQRSPPTT| Phillis how much the times are changed | A |
| Since in a hack the town you ranged | A |
| Since without finery or train you shone | B |
| Conspicuous for your charms alone | B |
| When though you supped on sorry fare | C |
| You nectar seemed with gods to share | C |
| You foolishly to one consigned | D |
| Beauty which might charm all mankind | D |
| A desperate lover who for life | E |
| Engaged you when he made his wife | E |
| You then no treasure did inherit | F |
| Your beauty was your only merit | F |
| Your bosom charms divine displayed | G |
| There Cupid still an ambush laid | G |
| Your heart was tender and your mind | D |
| To youthful frolics much inclined | D |
| With so many charms endued | H |
| What woman e'er could be a prude | H |
| That fault oh beauty all divine | I |
| Was very far from being thine | I |
| Because of favors you were free | J |
| You were the better liked by me | J |
| How differently you live grown great | K |
| Your life is but the farce of state | K |
| The hoary porter who still plies | L |
| At your own door and tells such lies | L |
| Is a just emblem of the age | M |
| His very looks ill luck presage | N |
| He thinks the duty of his place is | O |
| To drive away the loves and graces | O |
| The tender swain's abashed afraid | G |
| Your pompous palace to invade | G |
| When you were young to my amazement | P |
| I've seen them enter at the casement | P |
| I've seen them enter every day | P |
| And in your chamber nimbly play | P |
| Not all your carpets and your plate | P |
| Not all your proud parade of state | P |
| Those goblets which so brightly shine | I |
| Graved by Germain with art divine | I |
| Those closets nobly furnished where | C |
| Martin's exceeds the China ware | C |
| Your vases of Japan and all | Q |
| The brittle wonders of your hall | Q |
| Your diamond pendants which appear | R |
| With such bright lustre at each ear | S |
| Your solitaires so dazzling bright | P |
| Your pomp which strikes the gazer's sight | P |
| Are worth one quarter of that bliss | T |
| Which once you imparted by a kiss | T |
Voltaire
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