Man's Medley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFGE DDHDDH IJ KLLK MMGNNF DDDOOD| Hark how the birds do sing | A |
| And woods do ring | A |
| All creatures have their joy and man hath his | B |
| Yet if we rightly measure | C |
| Man's joy and pleasure | C |
| Rather hereafter than in present is | B |
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| To this life things of sense | D |
| Make their pretence | D |
| In th' other angels have a right by birth | E |
| Man ties them both alone | F |
| And makes them one | G |
| With th' one hand touching heaven with th' other earth | E |
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| In soul he mounts and flies | D |
| In flesh he dies | D |
| He wears a stuff whose thread is coarse and round | H |
| But trimmed with curious lace | D |
| And should take place | D |
| After the trimming not the stuff and ground | H |
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| Not that he may not here | I |
| Taste of the cheer | J |
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| But as birds drink and straight lift up their head | K |
| So must he sip and think | L |
| Of better drink | L |
| He may attain to after he is dead | K |
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| But as his joys are double | M |
| So is his trouble | M |
| He hath two winters other things but one | G |
| Both frosts and thoughts do nip | N |
| And bite his lip | N |
| And he of all things fears two deaths alone | F |
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| Yet even the greatest griefs | D |
| May be reliefs | D |
| Could he but take them right and in their ways | D |
| Happy is he whose heart | O |
| Hath found the art | O |
| To turn his double pains to double praise | D |
George Herbert
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