Venus By Adonis' Side Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHII JJKK E| Venus by Adonis' side | A |
| Crying kiss'd and kissing cried | A |
| Wrung her hands and tore her hair | B |
| For Adonis dying there | B |
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| Stay quoth she O stay and live | C |
| Nature surely doth not give | D |
| To the earth her sweetest flowers | E |
| To be seen but some few hours | E |
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| On his face still as he bled | F |
| For each drop a tear she shed | F |
| Which she kiss'd or wip'd away | G |
| Else had drown'd him where he lay | G |
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| Fair Proserpina quoth she | H |
| Shall not have thee yet from me | H |
| Nor my soul to fly begin | I |
| While my lips can keep it in | I |
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| Here she clos'd again And some | J |
| Say Apollo would have come | J |
| To have cur'd his wounded limb | K |
| But that she had smothered him | K |
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| From Britannia's Pastorals | E |
William Browne
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