The Vote (excerpt) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDEFFGGHIIJKKLLG MMGNNA | |
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 |
Rumor can ope the grave | E |
Acquaintance I would hug but when 't depends | F |
Not from the number but the choice of friends | F |
Books should not business entertain the light | G |
And sleep as undisturbed 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 |
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 lived to day | N |
Abraham Cowley
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