I Must Have Wanton Poets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFGHIJKLMMNOPQN M| MUST have wanton poets pleasant wits | A |
| Musicians that with touching of a string | B |
| May draw the pliant king which way I please | C |
| Music and poetry is his delight | D |
| Therefore I'll have Italian masks by night | D |
| Sweet speeches comedies and pleasing shows | E |
| And in the day when he shall walk abroad | F |
| Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad | G |
| My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns | H |
| Shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay | I |
| Sometime a lovely boy in Dian's shape | J |
| With hair that gilds the water as it glides | K |
| Crownets of pearl about his naked arms | L |
| And in his sportful hands an olive tree | M |
| To hide those parts which men delight to see | M |
| Shall bathe him in a spring and there hard by | N |
| One like Act on peeping through the grove | O |
| Shall by the angry goddess be transform'd | P |
| And running in the likeness of an hart | Q |
| By yelping hounds pull'd down shall seem to die | N |
| Such things as these best please his majesty | M |
Christopher Marlowe
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