And Must I Sing? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CCC DDD EEE FFF GGG HHH III HHH HHH| And must I sing what subject shall I chuse | A |
| Or whose great name in Poets heaven use | B |
| For the more countenance to my active Muse | A |
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| Hercules alas his bones are yet sore | C |
| With his old earthly labours T'exact more | C |
| Of his dull god head were sinne Ile implore | C |
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| Phoebus No tend thy cart still Envious day | D |
| Shall not give out that I have made thee stay | D |
| And foundred thy hot teame to tune my lay | D |
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| Nor will I begge of thee Lord of the vine | E |
| To raise my spirits with thy conjuring wine | E |
| In the greene circle of thy Ivie twine | E |
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| Pallas nor thee I call on mankind maid | F |
| That at thy birth mad'st the poore Smith affraid | F |
| Who with his axe thy fathers mid wife plaid | F |
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| Goe crampe dull Mars light Venus when he snorts | G |
| Or with thy Tribade trine invent new sports | G |
| Thou nor thy loosenesse with my making sorts | G |
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| Let the old Boy your sonne ply his old taske | H |
| Turne the stale prologue to some painted maske | H |
| His absence in my verse is all I aske | H |
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| Hermes the cheater shall not mix with us | I |
| Though hee would steale his sisters Pegasus | I |
| And riffle him or pawne his Petasus | I |
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| Nor all the ladies of the Thespian lake | H |
| Though they were crusht into one forme could make | H |
| A beautie of that merit that should take | H |
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| My Muse up by commission No I bring | H |
| My owne true fire Now my thought takes wing | H |
| And now an Epode to deepe eares I sing | H |
Ben Jonson
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