The Noble Balm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDDEFFE GHHGIIJJKFLK| High spirited friend | A |
| I send nor balms nor cor'sives to your wound | B |
| Your fate hath found | B |
| A gentler and more agile hand to tend | A |
| The cure of that which is but corporal | C |
| And doubtful days which were named critical | C |
| Have made their fairest flight | D |
| And now are out of sight | D |
| Yet doth some wholesome physic for the mind | E |
| Wrapp'd in this paper lie | F |
| Which in the taking if you misapply | F |
| You are unkind | E |
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| Your covetous hand | G |
| Happy in that fair honour it hath gain'd | H |
| Must now be rein'd | H |
| True valour doth her own renown command | G |
| In one full action nor have you now more | I |
| To do than be a husband of that store | I |
| Think but how dear you bought | J |
| This fame which you have caught | J |
| Such thoughts will make you more in love with truth | K |
| 'Tis wisdom and that high | F |
| For men to use their fortune reverently | L |
| Even in youth | K |
Ben Jonson
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