Poet George Herbert

George Herbert

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Man's Medley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFGE HHIJJI KLMNNM OOGPPF JJJQQJ

Hark how the birds do singA
and woods do ringA
All creatures have their joy and man hath hisB
Yet if we rightly measureC
Man's joy and pleasureC
Rather hereafter than in present isB
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To this life things of senseD
Make their pretenseD
In th'other Angels have a right by birthE
Man ties them both aloneF
And makes them oneG
With th'one hand touching heav'n with th'other earthE
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In soul he mounts and fliesH
In flesh he diesH
He wears a stuff whose thread is coarse and roundI
But trimm'd with curious laceJ
And should take placeJ
After the trimming not the stuff and groundI
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Not that he may not hereK
Taste of the cheerL
But as birds drink and straight lift up their headM
So must he sip and thinkN
Of better drinkN
He may attain to after he is deadM
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But as his joys are doubleO
So is his troubleO
He hath two winters other things but oneG
Both frosts and thoughts do nipP
And bite his lipP
And he of all things fears two deaths aloneF
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Yet ev'n the greatest griefsJ
May be reliefsJ
Could he but take them right and in their waysJ
Happy is he whose heartQ
Hath found the artQ
To turn his double pains to double praiseJ

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