On A Gentlewoman's Blistred Lipp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFFFGGGGHG IIGGJJGGBBHH| Hide not that sprouting lipp nor kill | A |
| The juicy bloome with bashfull skill | A |
| Know it is an amorous dewe | B |
| That swells to court thy corall hewe | B |
| And what a blemish you esteeme | C |
| To other eyes a pearle may seeme | C |
| Whose watery growth is not above | D |
| The thrifty seize that pearles doe love | D |
| And doth so well become that part | E |
| That chance may seeme a secret art | E |
| Doth any judge that face lesse fayre | F |
| Whose tender silke a mole doth beare | F |
| Or will a diamond shine less cleare | F |
| If in the midst a soil appeare | F |
| Or else that eye a finer nett | G |
| Whose glasse is ring'd about with jett | G |
| Or is an apple thought more sweete | G |
| When hony specks and redde doe meete | G |
| Then is the lipp made fayrer by | H |
| Such sweetness of deformitie | G |
| The nectar which men strive to sipp | I |
| Springs like a well upon your lipp | I |
| Nor doth it shew immodesty | G |
| But overflowing chastity | G |
| O who will blame the fruitfull trees | J |
| When too much sapp and gumme hee sees | J |
| Here nature from her store doth send | G |
| Only what other parts can lend | G |
| The budde of love which here doth growe | B |
| Were too too sweete if pluckt belowe | B |
| When lovely buddes ascend so high | H |
| The roote belowe cannot be drye | H |
William Strode
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