For A Gentleman, Who, Kissinge His Friend At His Departure Left A Signe Of Blood On Her Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAAAABBCCDDAAEEDD FFAABEEEBB| What mystery was this that I should finde | A |
| My blood in kissing you to stay behinde | A |
| 'Twas not for want of color that requirde | A |
| My blood for paynt No dye could be desirde | A |
| On that fayre silke where scarlett were a spott | A |
| And where the juice of lillies but a blotte | A |
| 'Twas not the signe of murther that did taynt | A |
| The harmlesse beauty of so pure a saynt | A |
| Yes of a loving murther which rough steele | B |
| Could never worke such as we joy to feele | B |
| Wherby the ravisht soule though dying lives | C |
| Since life and death the selfsame object gives | C |
| If at the presence of a murtherer | D |
| The wound will bleede and tell the cause is ther | D |
| A touch will doe much more and thus my heart | A |
| When secretly it felt the killing darte | A |
| Shew'd it in blood which yet doth more complayne | E |
| Because it cannot be so touched againe | E |
| This wounded heart to shew its love most true | D |
| Sent forth a droppe and writ its minde on you | D |
| Never was paper halfe so white as this | F |
| Nor waxe so yeelding to the printed kisse | F |
| Nor seal'd so strong Noe letter ere was writt | A |
| That could the author's minde so truly hitt | A |
| For though myselfe to foreigne countries flie | B |
| My blood desires to keepe you company | E |
| Here could I spill it all thus I can free | E |
| Mine enemy from blood though slayne I be | E |
| But slayne I cannot bee nor meete with ill | B |
| Since but by you I have no blood to spill | B |
William Strode
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