Keepe On Your Maske (version For His Mistress) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGAACCHHAA DDFFIIJJKKLLFFDDMMAA| Keepe on your maske and hide your eye | A |
| For in beholding you I dye | A |
| Your fatall beauty Gorgon like | B |
| Dead with astonishment doth strike | B |
| Your piercing eyes that now I see | C |
| Are worse than Basilisks to me | C |
| Shut from mine eyes those hills of snow | D |
| Their melting vally do not shew | E |
| Those azure paths lead to despaire | F |
| O vex me not forbear forbear | F |
| For while I thus in torments dwell | G |
| The sight of Heaven is worse than Hell | G |
| In those faire cheeks two pits doe lye | A |
| To bury those slaine by your eye | A |
| So this at length doth comfort me | C |
| That fairely buried I shall be | C |
| My grave with Roses Lillies spread | H |
| Methinks tis life for to be dead | H |
| Come then and kill me with your eye | A |
| For if you let me live I dye | A |
| When I perceive your lips againe | D |
| Recover those your eyes have slaine | D |
| With kisses that like balsome pure | F |
| Deep wounds as soone as made doe cure | F |
| Methinks tis sicknesse to be sound | I |
| And there's no health to such a wound | I |
| When in your bosome I behold | J |
| Two hills of snow yet never cold | J |
| Which lovers whom your beauty kills | K |
| Revive by climing those your hills | K |
| Methinks there's life in such a death | L |
| That gives a hope of sweeter breath | L |
| Then since one death prevails not where | F |
| So many antidotes are nere | F |
| And your bright eyes doe but in vaine | D |
| Kill those who live as fast as slaine | D |
| That I no more such death survive | M |
| Your way's to bury me alive | M |
| In place unknown and so that I | A |
| Being dead may live and living dye | A |
William Strode
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