Hypochondriacus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDDEAFFBBBGGDDA AGGH IDDGGJGGGDDDGGG GBy 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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