A Vote (excerpt) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDEFF GGHIIJKK LLGMMGNN| A | |
| This only grant me that my means may lie | B |
| Too low for envy for contempt too high | B |
| Some honour I would have | C |
| Not from great deeds but good alone | D |
| Th' ignote are better than ill known | D |
| Rumour can ope the grave | E |
| Acquaintance I would hug but when 't depends | F |
| Not from the number but the choice of friends | F |
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| Books should not bus'ness entertain the light | G |
| And sleep as undisturb'd as death the night | G |
| My house a cottage more | H |
| Than palace and should fitting be | I |
| For all my use no luxury | I |
| My garden painted o'er | J |
| With Nature's hand not Art's and pleasures yield | K |
| Horace might envy in his Sabine field | K |
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| Thus would I double my life's fading space | L |
| For he that runs it well twice runs his race | L |
| And in this true delight | G |
| These unbought sports and happy state | M |
| I would not fear nor wish my fate | M |
| But boldly say each night | G |
| To morrow let my sun his beams display | N |
| Or in clouds hide them I have liv'd to day | N |
Abraham Cowley
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