The Discontent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDEECCFFGGHHEIJKKJ DDKKDD A HHHCCKLKLMMNNOPKKKKK K A KKKKCCFFKKQQKKKKRRKK P QQHHKKKKCCKKSKKSAMHH M KKKKMKMKKKKQQ A KKAAKKCCCCCCPPKKKKKI | A |
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Here take no Care take here no Care my Muse | B |
Nor ought of Art or Labour use | C |
But let thy Lines rude and unpolisht go | D |
Nor Equal be their Feet nor Num'rous let them flow | D |
The ruggeder my Measures run when read | E |
They'l livelier paint th'unequal Paths fond Mortals tread | E |
Who when th'are tempted by the smooth Ascents | C |
Which flatt'ring Hope presents | C |
Briskly they clime and Great Things undertake | F |
But Fatal Voyages alas they make | F |
For 'tis not long before their Feet | G |
Inextricable Mazes meet | G |
Perplexing Doubts obstruct their Way | H |
Mountains with stand them of Dismay | H |
Or to the Brink of black Dispaire them lead | E |
Where's nought their Ruine to impede | I |
In vain for Aide they then to Reason call | J |
Their Senses dazle and their Heads turn round | K |
The sight does all their Pow'rs confound | K |
And headlong down the horrid Precipice they fall | J |
Where storms of Sighs for ever blow | D |
Whre raped streams of Tears do flow | D |
Which drown them in a Briny Floud | K |
My Muse pronounce aloud there's nothing Good | K |
Nought that the World can show | D |
Nought that it can bestow | D |
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II | A |
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Not boundless Heaps of its admired Clay | H |
Ah too successful to betray | H |
When spread in our fraile Vertues way | H |
For few do run with so Resolv'd a Pace | C |
That for the Golden Apple will not loose the Race | C |
And yet not all the Gold the Vain would spend | K |
Or greedy Avarice would wish to save | L |
Which on the Earth refulgent Beams doth send | K |
Or in the Sea has found a Grave | L |
Joyn'd in one Mass can Bribe sufficient be | M |
The Body from a stern Disease to free | M |
Or purchase for the Minds relief | N |
One Moments sweet Repose when restless made by grief | N |
But what may Laughter more than Pity move | O |
When some the Price of what they Dear'st Love | P |
Are Masters of and hold it in their Hand | K |
To part with it their Hearts they can't command | K |
But chose to miss what miss't does them torment | K |
And that to hug affords them no Content | K |
Wise Fools to do them Right we these must hold | K |
Who Love depose and Homage pay to Gold | K |
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III | A |
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Nor yet if rightly understood | K |
Does Grandeur carry more of Good | K |
To be o'th' Number of the Great enroll'd | K |
A Scepter o're a Mighty Realm to hold | K |
For what is this | C |
If I not judge amiss | C |
But all th'Afflicted of a Land to take | F |
And f one single Family to make | F |
The Wrong'd the Poor th'Opprest the Sad | K |
The Ruin'd Malecontent and Mad | K |
Which a great Part of ev'ry Empire frame | Q |
And Interest in the common Father claime | Q |
Again what is't but always to abide | K |
A Gazing Crowd upon a Stage to spend | K |
A Life that's vain or Evil without End | K |
And which is yet not safely held nor laid aside | K |
And then if lesser Titles carry less of Care | R |
Yet none but Fools ambitious are to share | R |
Such a Mock Good of which 'tis said 'tis Best | K |
When of the least of it Men are possest | K |
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IV | P |
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But O the Laurel'd Fool that doats on Fame | Q |
Whose Hope's Applause whose Fear's to want a Name | Q |
Who can accept for Pay | H |
Of what he does what others say | H |
Exposes now to hostile Arms his Breast | K |
To toylsome Study then betrays his Rest | K |
Now to his Soul denies a just Content | K |
Then forces on it what it does resent | K |
And all for Praise of Fools for such are those | C |
Which most of the Admiring Crowd compose | C |
O famisht Soul which such Thin Food can feed | K |
O Wretched Labour crown'd with such a Meed | K |
Too loud O Fame thy Trumpet is too shrill | S |
To lull a Mind to Rest | K |
Or calme a stormy Breast | K |
Which asks a Musick soft and still | S |
'Twas not Almaleck's vanquisht Cry | A |
Nor Israels shout of Victory | M |
That could in Saul the rising Passion lay | H |
'Twas the soft strains of David's Lyre the Evil Spirit chace't away | H |
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V | M |
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But Friendship fain would yet it self defend | K |
And Mighty Things it does pretend | K |
To be of this Sad Journey Life the Baite | K |
The Sweet Refection of our toylsome State | K |
But though True Friendship a Rich Cordial be | M |
Alas by most 'tis so alay'd | K |
Its Good so mixt with Ill we see | M |
That Dross for Gold is often paid | K |
And for one Grain of Friendship that is found | K |
Falshood and Interest do the Mass compound | K |
Or coldness worse than Steel the Loyal heart doth wound | K |
Love in no Two was ever yet the same | Q |
No Happy Two ere felt an Equal Flame | Q |
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VI | A |
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Is there that Earth by Humane Foot ne're prest | K |
That Aire which never yet by Humane Breast | K |
Respir'd did Life supply | A |
Oh thither let me fly | A |
Where from the World at such a distance set | K |
All that's past present and to come I may forget | K |
The Lovers Sighs and the Afflicted Tears | C |
What e're may wound my Eyes or Ears | C |
The grating Noise of Private Jars | C |
The horrid sound of Publick Wars | C |
Of babling Fame the Idle Stories | C |
The short liv'd Triumphs Noysy Glories | C |
The Curious Nets the subtile weave | P |
The Word the Look that may deceive | P |
No Mundan Care shall more affect my Breast | K |
My profound Peace shake or molest | K |
But Stupor like to Death my Senses bind | K |
That so I may anticipate that Rest | K |
Which only in my Grave I hope to find | K |
Anne Killigrew
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