To The World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDEFGFGHIHIJKJK LMLMNMNMANANNONOPQPQ MPMPQMQMRRRRPSPSTRTR NUNUPVPV| A farewell for a Gentlewoman vertuous and noble | A |
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| False world good night since thou hast brought | B |
| That houre upon my morne of age | C |
| Hence forth I quit thee from my thought | B |
| My part is ended on thy stage | C |
| Doe not once hope that thou canst tempt | D |
| A spirit so resolv'd to tread | E |
| Upon thy throat and live exempt | D |
| From all the nets that thou canst spread | E |
| I know thy formes are studied arts | F |
| Thy subtill wayes be narrow straits | G |
| Thy curtesie but sudden starts | F |
| And what thou call'st thy gifts are baits | G |
| I know too though thou strut and paint | H |
| Yet art thou both shrunke up and old | I |
| That onely fooles make thee a saint | H |
| And all thy good is to be sold | I |
| I know thou whole art but a shop | J |
| Of toyes and trifles traps and snares | K |
| To take the weake or make them stop | J |
| Yet art thou falser than thy wares | K |
| And knowing this should I yet stay | L |
| Like such as blow away their lives | M |
| And never will redeeme a day | L |
| Enamor'd of their golden gyves | M |
| Or having scap'd shall I returne | N |
| And thrust my neck into the noose | M |
| From whence so lately I did burne | N |
| With all my powers my selfe to loose | M |
| What bird or beast is knowne so dull | A |
| That fled his cage or broke his chaine | N |
| And tasting aire and freedome wull | A |
| Render his head in there againe | N |
| If these who have but sense can shun | N |
| The engines that have them annoy'd | O |
| Little for mee had reason done | N |
| If I could not thy ginnes avoid | O |
| Yes threaten doe Alas I feare | P |
| As little as I hope from thee | Q |
| I know thou canst nor shew nor beare | P |
| More hatred than thou hast to mee | Q |
| My tender first and simple yeares | M |
| Thou did'st abuse and then betray | P |
| Since stird'st up jealousies and feares | M |
| When all the causes were away | P |
| Then in a soile hast planted me | Q |
| Where breathe the basest of thy fooles | M |
| Where envious arts professed be | Q |
| And pride and ignorance the schooles | M |
| Where nothing is examin'd weigh'd | R |
| But as 'tis rumor'd so beleev'd | R |
| Where every freedome is betray'd | R |
| And every goodnesse tax'd or griev'd | R |
| But what we'are borne for wee must beare | P |
| Our fraile condition it is such | S |
| That what to all may happen here | P |
| If't chance to mee I must not grutch | S |
| Else I my state should much mistake | T |
| To harbour a divided thought | R |
| From all my kinde that for my sake | T |
| There should a miracle be wrought | R |
| No I doe know that I was borne | N |
| To age misfortune sicknesse griefe | U |
| But I will beare these with that scorne | N |
| As shall not need thy false reliefe | U |
| Nor for my peace will I goe farre | P |
| As wandrers doe that still doe rome | V |
| But make my strengths such as they are | P |
| Here in my bosome and at home | V |
Ben Jonson
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