It Is Not Growing Like A Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDAA| It is not growing like a tree | A |
| In bulk doth make Man better be | A |
| Or standing long an oak three hundred year | B |
| To fall a log at last dry bald and sere | B |
| A lily of a day | C |
| Is fairer far in May | C |
| Although it fall and die that night | D |
| It was the plant and flower of light | D |
| In small proportions we just beauties see | A |
| And in short measures life may perfect be | A |
Ben Jonson
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