Against Hope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFF DDGHIIEEII EEJJBBBBKK IILLMMNNBB| Hope whose weak Being ruin'd is | A |
| Alike if it succeed and if it miss | B |
| Whom Good or Ill does equally confound | C |
| And both the Horns of Fates Dilemma wound | C |
| Vain shadow which dost vanish quite | D |
| Both at full Noon and perfect Night | D |
| The Stars have not a possibility | E |
| Of blessing Thee | E |
| If things then from their End we happy call | F |
| 'Tis Hope is the most Hopeless thing of all | F |
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| Hope thou bold Taster of Delight | D |
| Who whilst thou shouldst but tast devour'st it quite | D |
| Thou bringst us an Estate yet leav'st us Poor | G |
| By clogging it with Legacies before | H |
| The Joys which we entire should wed | I |
| Come deflowr'd Virgins to our bed | I |
| Good fortunes without gain imported be | E |
| Such mighty Custom's paid to Thee | E |
| For Joy like Wine kept close does better tast | I |
| If it take air before its spirits wast | I |
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| Hope Fortunes cheating Lottery | E |
| Where for one prize an hundred blanks there be | E |
| Fond Archer Hope who tak'st thy aim so far | J |
| That still or short or wide thine arrows are | J |
| Thin empty Cloud which th'eye deceives | B |
| With shapes that our own Fancy gives | B |
| A Cloud which gilt and painted now appears | B |
| But must drop presently in tears | B |
| When thy false beams o're Reasons light prevail | K |
| By Ignes fatui for North Stars we sail | K |
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| Brother of Fear more gaily clad | I |
| The merr'ier Fool o'th' two yet quite as Mad | I |
| Sire of Repentance Child of fond Desire | L |
| That blow'st the Chymicks and the Lovers fire | L |
| Leading them still insensibly'on | M |
| By the strange witchcraft of Anon | M |
| By Thee the one does changing Nature through | N |
| Her endless Labyrinths pursue | N |
| And th' other chases Woman whilst She goes | B |
| More ways and turns than hunted Nature knows | B |
Abraham Cowley
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