Mr. Francis Beaumont's Letter To Ben Jonson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGHEEIJKKLL EEEEMMIINNOOPPQQMM RSNNTUKKNNHVWWXHEEYY ZZAAQQWWPPEEA2A2B2FZ WWW

The sun which doth the greatest comfort bringA
To absent friends because the self same thingA
They know they see however absent isB
Here our best hay maker forgive me thisC
It is our country style in this warm shineD
I lie and dream of your full Mermaid wineD
Oh we have water mixed with claret leesE
Drink apt to bring in drier heresiesE
Than beer good only for the sonnet strainF
With fustian metaphors to stuff the brainF
So mixed that given to the thirstiest oneG
'Twill not prove alms unless he have the stoneH
I think with one draught man's invention fadesE
Two cups had quite marred Homer's IliadsE
'Tis liquor that will find out Sutcliffe's witI
Lie where it will and make him write worse yetJ
Filled with such moisture in a grievous qualmK
Did Robert Wisdom write his singing psalmK
And so must I do this and yet I thinkL
It is a potion sent us down to drinkL
By special providence keeps us from fightsE
Makes us not laugh when we make legs to knightsE
'Tis this that keeps our minds fit for our statesE
A med'cine to obey our magistratesE
For we do live more free than you no hateM
No envy of another's happy stateM
Moves us we are all equal every whitI
Of land that God gives men here is their witI
If we consider fully for our bestN
And gravest man will with his main house jestN
Scarce please you we want subtlety to doO
The city tricks lie hate and flatter tooO
Here are none that can bear a painted showP
Strike when you wink and then lament the blowP
Who like mills set the right way to grindQ
Can make their gains alike with every windQ
Only some fellow with the subtlest pateM
Amongst us may perchance equivocateM
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At selling of a horse and that's the mostR
Methinks the little wit I had is lostS
Since I saw you for wit is like a restN
Held up at tennis which men do the bestN
With the best gamesters What things have we seenT
Done at the Mermaid heard words that have beenU
So nimble and so full of subtle flameK
As if that everyone from whence they cameK
Had meant to put his whole wit in a jestN
And had resolved to live a fool the restN
Of his dull life then when there has been thrownH
Wit able enough to justify the townV
For three days past wit that might warrant beW
For the whole city to talk foolishlyW
Till that were cancelled and when we were goneX
We left an air behind which was aloneH
Able to make the two next companiesE
Right witty though they were downright cockneysE
When I remember this and see that nowY
The country gentlemen begin to allowY
My wit for dry bobs then I needs must cryZ
I see my days of ballading are nighZ
I can already riddle and can singA
Catches sell bargains and I fear shall bringA
Myself to speak the hardest words I findQ
Over as fast as any with one windQ
That takes no medicines But one thought of theeW
Makes me remember all these things to beW
The wit of our young men fellows that showP
No part of good yet utter all they knowP
Who like trees and the guard have growing soulsE
Only strong destiny which all controlsE
I hope hath left a better fate in storeA2
For me thy friend than to live evermoreA2
Banished unto this home 'twill once againB2
Bring me to thee who wilt make smooth and plainF
The way of knowledge for me and then IZ
Who have no good in me but simplicityW
Know that it will my greatest comfort beW
To acknowledge all the rest to come from theeW

Francis Beaumont



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