A Farewell To The World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG DHDH IJIJ EKLK MAMA NONO PQPQ| False world good night since thou hast brought | A |
| That hour upon my morn of age | B |
| Henceforth I quit thee from my thought | A |
| My part is ended on thy stage | B |
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| Yes threaten do Alas I fear | C |
| As little as I hope from thee | D |
| I know thou canst not show nor bear | E |
| More hatred than thou hast to me | D |
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| My tender first and simple years | F |
| Thou didst abuse and then betray | G |
| Since stir'd'st up jealousies and fears | F |
| When all the causes were away | G |
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| Then in a soil hast planted me | D |
| Where breathe the basest of thy fools | H |
| Where envious arts profess egrave d be | D |
| And pride and ignorance the schools | H |
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| Where nothing is examined weigh'd | I |
| But as 'tis rumour'd so believed | J |
| Where every freedom is betray'd | I |
| And every goodness tax'd or grieved | J |
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| But what we're born for we must bear | E |
| Our frail condition it is such | K |
| That what to all may happen here | L |
| If 't chance to me I must not grutch | K |
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| Else I my state should much mistake | M |
| To harbour a divided thought | A |
| From all my kind that for my sake | M |
| There should a miracle be wrought | A |
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| No I do know that I was born | N |
| To age misfortune sickness grief | O |
| But I will bear these with that scorn | N |
| As shall not need thy false relief | O |
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| Nor for my peace will I go far | P |
| As wanderers do that still do roam | Q |
| But make my strengths such as they are | P |
| Here in my bosom and at home | Q |
Ben Jonson
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