Hypochondriacus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDDEAFFBBBGGDDA AGGH IDDGGJGGGDDDGGG G| By myself walking | A |
| To myself talking | A |
| When as I ruminate | B |
| On my untoward fate | B |
| Scarcely seem I | C |
| Alone sufficiently | D |
| Black thoughts continually | D |
| Crowding my privacy | D |
| They come unbidden | E |
| Like foes at a wedding | A |
| Thrusting their faces | F |
| In better guests' places | F |
| Peevish and malecontent | B |
| Clownish impertinent | B |
| Dashing the merriment | B |
| So in like fashions | G |
| Dim cogitations | G |
| Follow and haunt me | D |
| Striving to daunt me | D |
| In my heart festering | A |
| In my ears whispering | A |
| 'Thy friends are treacherous | G |
| 'Thy foes are dangerous | G |
| 'Thy dreams ominous ' | H |
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| Fierce Anthropophagi | I |
| Spectre Diaboli | D |
| What scared St Antony | D |
| Hobgoblins Lemures | G |
| Dreams of Antipodes | G |
| Night riding Incubi | J |
| Troubling the fantasy | G |
| All dire illusions | G |
| Causing confusions | G |
| Figments heretical | D |
| Scruples fantastical | D |
| Doubts diabolical | D |
| Abaddon vexeth me | G |
| Mahu perplexeth me | G |
| Lucifer teareth me | G |
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| Jesu Maria liberate nos ab his diris tentationibus Inimici | G |
Charles Lamb
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