Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes



Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air,
     Thrice sit thou mute in this enchanted chair,
     Then thrice three times tie up this true love's knot,
     And murmur soft 'She will, or she will not.'

       Go burn these pois'nous weeds in yon blue fire,
     These screech-owl's feathers and this prickling briar,
     This cypress gathered at a dead man's grave,
     That all my fears and cares an end may have.

       Then come, you fairies! dance with me a round;
   Melt her hard heart with your melodious sound.
   In vain are all the charms I can devise:
   She hath an art to break them with her eyes.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABB CCXX DDEE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 609
Words 108
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

Thomas Campion

Thomas Campion sometimes Campian was an English composer poet and physician Campion was first published as a poet in 1591 with five of his works appearing in an edition of Sir Philip Sidneys Astrophel and Stella more…

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