On A Gentlewoman's Watch That Wanted A Key Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGHIIEEJKLM NNKKKKOOEE| Thou pretty heav'n whose great and lesser spheares | A |
| With constant wheelings measure hours and yeares | A |
| Soe faithfully that thou couldst solve the doubt | B |
| Of erring Time if Nature should be out | B |
| Where's thy intelligence thy Soule the Key | C |
| That gives thee Life and Motion must thou stay | D |
| Thus cramp'd with rusty Sloth and shall each wheele | E |
| Disorganis'd confess it is but steele | E |
| Art's Living Creature is thy thread all spent | F |
| Thy Pulse quite dead hath Time a period sent | F |
| To his owne Sister slaine his Eeven Match | G |
| That when we looke 'tis doomesday by the Watch | H |
| Prithee sweete Watch be marri'd joyne thy side | I |
| Unto an active key and then abide | I |
| A frequent screwing till successively | E |
| More and more Time beget Eternity | E |
| Knowe as a Woman never lock'd and key'd | J |
| Once in twice twelve growes faint and is downe weighed | K |
| From Nature's full intent and cannot live | L |
| Beyond her natural span unlesse Man give | M |
| His vanish'd bone a quick'ning unless Man | N |
| Doe adde an Ell unto her now shrunk span | N |
| Unless he lengthen out posteritie | K |
| Her secret orbes will faint and She all die | K |
| Soe will thy wheeles decay and finde their date | K |
| Unless a Key their houres doe propagate | K |
| Then gett a key and live my life Ile gage | O |
| Each minute then shall grow into an age | O |
| Then lett thy Mistresse looking smile on Thee | E |
| And say 'tis time my Watch and I agree | E |
William Strode
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