On Gray Eyes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFGCDHHIICCJI CCDDCCCCBDIIDDCC| Looke how the russet morne exceeds the night | A |
| How sleekest Jett yields to the di'monds light | A |
| So farr the glory of the gray bright eye | B |
| Out vyes the black in lovely majesty | C |
| A morning mantl'd with a fleece of gray | D |
| Laughs from her brow and shewes a spotlesse day | D |
| This di'mond like doth not his lustre owe | E |
| To borrowed helpe as black thinges cast a show | E |
| It needs noe day besides itselfe and can | F |
| Make a Cimmeria seeme meridian | G |
| Light sees tis seen tis that whereby wee see | C |
| When darknesse in the opticke facultie | D |
| Is but a single element then tell | H |
| Is not that eye the best wherein doth dwell | H |
| More plenteous light that organ is divine | I |
| And more than eye that is all chrystalline | I |
| All rich of sight oh that perspicuous glasse | C |
| That lets in light and lets a light forth passe | C |
| Tis Lustre's thoroughfare where rayes doe thronge | J |
| A burning glasse that fires the lookers on | I |
| Black eies sett off coarse beauties which they grace | C |
| But as a beard smutch'd on a swarthy face | C |
| Why should the seat of life be dull'd with shade | D |
| Or that be darke for which the day was made | D |
| The learned Pallas who had witt to choose | C |
| And power to take did other eyes refuse | C |
| And wore the gray each country painter blotts | C |
| His goddesse eyeballs with two smutty spotts | C |
| Corruption layes on blacke give me the eye | B |
| Whose lustre dazles paynt and poetrie | D |
| That's day unto itselfe which like the sun | I |
| Seemes all one flame They that his beames will shun | I |
| Here dye like flyes when eyes of every kind | D |
| Faint at the sun at these the sun growes blind | D |
| And skipps behind a cloud that all may say | C |
| The Eye of all the world loves to be gray | C |
William Strode
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