A Part Of An Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDDEEFFCC GGHHIIEEJJ KLKKEECKCCGG CCMMEENOKK PPCCKKQQBB KRKRKKSJJTUU| To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that noble pair | A |
| Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H Morison | B |
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| It is not growing like a tree | C |
| In bulk doth make man better be | C |
| Or standing long an oak three hundred year | D |
| To fall a log at last dry bald and sere | D |
| A lily of a day | E |
| Is fairer far in May | E |
| Although it fall and die that night | F |
| It was the plant and flower of light | F |
| In small proportions we just beauties see | C |
| And in short measures life may perfect be | C |
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| Call noble Lucius then for wine | G |
| And let thy looks with gladness shine | G |
| Accept this garland plant it on thy head | H |
| And think nay know thy Morison 's not dead | H |
| He leap'd the present age | I |
| Possest with holy rage | I |
| To see that bright eternal Day | E |
| Of which we Priests and Poets say | E |
| Such truths as we expect for happy men | J |
| And there he lives with memory and Ben | J |
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| Jonson who sung this of him ere he went | K |
| Himself to rest | L |
| Or tast a part of that full joy he meant | K |
| To have exprest | K |
| In this bright Asterism | E |
| Where it were friendship's schism | E |
| Were not his Lucius long with us to tarry | C |
| To separate these twy | K |
| Lights the Dioscuri | C |
| And keep the one half from his Harry | C |
| But fate doth so alternate the design | G |
| Whilst that in Heav'n this light on earth must shine | G |
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| And shine as you exalted are | C |
| Two names of friendship but one star | C |
| Of hearts the union and those not by chance | M |
| Made or indenture or leased out to advance | M |
| The profits for a time | E |
| No pleasures vain did chime | E |
| Of rimes or riots at your feasts | N |
| Orgies of drink or feign'd protests | O |
| But simple love of greatness and of good | K |
| That knits brave minds and manners more than blood | K |
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| This made you first to know the Why | P |
| You liked then after to apply | P |
| That liking and approach so one the t'other | C |
| Till either grew a portion of the other | C |
| Each styl egrave d by his end | K |
| The copy of his friend | K |
| You lived to be the great surnames | Q |
| And titles by which all made claims | Q |
| Unto the Virtue nothing perfect done | B |
| But as a CARY or a MORISON | B |
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| And such the force the fair example had | K |
| As they that saw | R |
| The good and durst not practise it were glad | K |
| That such a law | R |
| Was left yet to mankind | K |
| Where they might read and find | K |
| FRIENDSHIP indeed was written not in words | S |
| And with the heart not pen | J |
| Of two so early men | J |
| Whose lines her rules were and records | T |
| Who ere the first down bloom egrave d on the chin | U |
| Had sow'd these fruits and got the harvest in | U |
Ben Jonson
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