The Wish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBACCA DEFFAGHA IAJJKAAL MNOOOPPO IIQQOAAO| Well then I now do plainly see | A |
| This busy world and I shall ne'er agree | A |
| The very honey of all earthly joy | B |
| Does of all meats the soonest cloy | B |
| And they methinks deserve my pity | A |
| Who for it can endure the stings | C |
| The crowd and buzz and murmurings | C |
| Of this great hive the city | A |
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| Ah yet ere I descend to th' grave | D |
| May I a small house and large garden have | E |
| And a few friends and many books both true | F |
| Both wise and both delightful too | F |
| And since love ne'er will from me flee | A |
| A mistress moderately fair | G |
| And good as guardian angels are | H |
| Only belov'd and loving me | A |
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| O fountains when in you shall I | I |
| Myself eas'd of unpeaceful thoughts espy | A |
| O fields O woods when shall I be made | J |
| The happy tenant of your shade | J |
| Here's the spring head of Pleasure's flood | K |
| Here's wealthy Nature's treasury | A |
| Where all the riches lie that she | A |
| Has coin'd and stamp'd for good | L |
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| Pride and ambition here | M |
| Only in far fetch'd metaphors appear | N |
| Here nought but winds can hurtful murmurs scatter | O |
| And nought but Echo flatter | O |
| The gods when they descended hither | O |
| From heaven did always choose their way | P |
| And therefore we may boldly say | P |
| That 'tis the way too thither | O |
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| How happy here should I | I |
| And one dear she live and embracing die | I |
| She who is all the world and can exclude | Q |
| In deserts solitude | Q |
| I should have then this only fear | O |
| Lest men when they my pleasures see | A |
| Should hither throng to live like me | A |
| And so make a city here | O |
Abraham Cowley
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