On A Good Legg And Foot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGBHGGGGII CCGGHHCCGGCCHHHH| If Hercules tall stature might bee guest | A |
| But by his thumbe wherby to make the rest | A |
| In due proportion the best rule that I | B |
| Would choose to measure Venus' beauty by | B |
| Should bee her legg and foot If husbandmen | C |
| Measure theyr timber by the foot why then | C |
| Not we our wives Whether wee goe or stride | D |
| Those native compasses are seldome wide | D |
| Of telling true the round and slender foot | E |
| Is a sure index and a secrett note | F |
| Of hidden parts and well this way may lead | G |
| Unto the closett of a maydenheade | G |
| Here Emblemes of our youth we roses tye | B |
| And here the garter love's deare mystery | H |
| For want of beauty here the peacock's pride | G |
| Letts fall her trayne and fearing to bee spide | G |
| Shutts upp her paynted witnesses to lett | G |
| Those eyes from view which are but counterfett | G |
| Who looks not if this part be good or evill | I |
| May meet with cloven feet and match the divell | I |
| For this doth make the difference betweene | C |
| The more unhallowed creatures and the cleane | C |
| Well may you judge her other stepps are lighte | G |
| Her thoughts awry that doth not tread aright | G |
| But then there's true perfection when wee see | H |
| Those parts more absolute that hidden bee | H |
| Nature nere layd a fayre foundation | C |
| For an unworthy frame to rest upon | C |
| Lett others view the topp and limbes throughout | G |
| The deeper knowledge is to know the roote | G |
| And reading of the face the weakest know | C |
| What beauty is the learned looke below | C |
| Who looking there doe all the rest descrie | H |
| As in a poole the moon we use to spie | H |
| Pardon sweetehart the pride of my desire | H |
| If but to kisse your toe it should aspire | H |
William Strode
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