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Campion - "Cherry-Ripe"
Does Campion's poem "Cherry-Ripe" follow any sort of fixed form? It seems to be some kind of variation of an English Sonnet, but after looking into it, I cannot seem to find any fixed form it does follow specifically. I'd appreciate any help anyone has to offer.
Cherry-Ripe
There is a garden in her face
Where roses and white lilies blow;
A heavenly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow:
There cherries grow which none may buy
Till 'Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry.
Those cherries fairly do enclose
Of orient pearls a double row,
Which when her lovely laughter shows,
They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow;
Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy
Till 'Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry.
Her eyes like angels watch them still;
Her brows like bended bows do stand,
Threat'ning with piercing frowns to kill
All that attempt with eye or hand
Those sacred cherries to come nigh,
Till 'Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry.
Cherry-Ripe
There is a garden in her face
Where roses and white lilies blow;
A heavenly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow:
There cherries grow which none may buy
Till 'Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry.
Those cherries fairly do enclose
Of orient pearls a double row,
Which when her lovely laughter shows,
They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow;
Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy
Till 'Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry.
Her eyes like angels watch them still;
Her brows like bended bows do stand,
Threat'ning with piercing frowns to kill
All that attempt with eye or hand
Those sacred cherries to come nigh,
Till 'Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry.
Top answer
It consists of 3 sestets (6-line stanzas). The metre is iambic tetrameter. The rhyme scheme is ABABCC.
- It consists of 3 sestets (6-line stanzas).
- The metre is iambic tetrameter.
- The rhyme scheme is ABABCC.
- The last line of each stanza is the refrain.
- The last 6 lines of a Shakespearian sonnet do indeed follow this rhyme scheme; though sonnets are usually in iambic pentameter.
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It consists of 3 sestets (6-line stanzas).
The metre is iambic tetrameter.
The rhyme scheme is ABABCC.
The last line of each stanza is the refrain.
The last 6 lines of a Shakespearian sonnet do indeed follow this rhyme scheme; though sonnets are usually in iambic pentameter.
MrP
The metre is iambic tetrameter.
The rhyme scheme is ABABCC.
The last line of each stanza is the refrain.
The last 6 lines of a Shakespearian sonnet do indeed follow this rhyme scheme; though sonnets are usually in iambic pentameter.
MrP
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I don't know that one, Jim, but it wouldn't surprise me – it ought to have a name, after all!
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