The Phoenix And The Turtle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDEF GHHG IJKI LMML NOON PQQP CRRC SIIS TUUT VCCW PQQ QXXQ N BBY ZZZ BBB BBB A2A2A2| Let the bird of loudest lay | A |
| On the sole Arabian tree | B |
| Herald sad and trumpet be | B |
| To whose sound chaste wings obey | A |
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| But thou shrieking harbinger | C |
| Foul precurrer of the fiend | D |
| Augur of the fever's end | E |
| To this troop come thou not near | F |
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| From this session interdict | G |
| Every fowl of tyrant wing | H |
| Save the eagle feather'd king | H |
| Keep the obsequy so strict | G |
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| Let the priest in surplice white | I |
| That defunctive music can | J |
| Be the death divining swan | K |
| Lest the requiem lack his right | I |
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| And thou treble dated crow | L |
| That thy sable gender mak'st | M |
| With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st | M |
| 'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go | L |
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| Here the anthem doth commence | N |
| Love and constancy is dead | O |
| Phoenix and the turtle fled | O |
| In a mutual flame from hence | N |
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| So they loved as love in twain | P |
| Had the essence but in one | Q |
| Two distincts division none | Q |
| Number there in love was slain | P |
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| Hearts remote yet not asunder | C |
| Distance and no space was seen | R |
| 'Twixt the turtle and his queen | R |
| But in them it were a wonder | C |
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| So between them love did shine | S |
| That the turtle saw his right | I |
| Flaming in the phoenix' sight | I |
| Either was the other's mine | S |
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| Property was thus appall'd | T |
| That the self was not the same | U |
| Single nature's double name | U |
| Neither two nor one was call'd | T |
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| Reason in itself confounded | V |
| Saw division grow together | C |
| To themselves yet either neither | C |
| Simple were so well compounded | W |
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| That it cried 'How true a twain | P |
| Seemeth this concordant one | Q |
| Love hath reason reason none | Q |
| If what parts can so remain ' | - |
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| Whereupon it made this threne | Q |
| To the phoenix and the dove | X |
| Co supremes and stars of love | X |
| As chorus to their tragic scene | Q |
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| THRENOS | N |
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| Beauty truth and rarity | B |
| Grace in all simplicity | B |
| Here enclosed in cinders lie | Y |
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| Death is now the phoenix' nest | Z |
| And the turtle's loyal breast | Z |
| To eternity doth rest | Z |
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| Leaving no posterity | B |
| 'Twas not their infirmity | B |
| It was married chastity | B |
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| Truth may seem but cannot be | B |
| Beauty brag but 'tis not she | B |
| Truth and beauty buried be | B |
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| To this urn let those repair | A2 |
| That are either true or fair | A2 |
| For these dead birds sigh a prayer | A2 |
William Shakespeare
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