The Collar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFAECFGHGIIEJKE KJHLLHMBNNMDOPOQI struck the board and cried No more | A |
I will abroad | B |
What shall I ever sigh and pine | C |
My lines and life are free free as the road | D |
Loose as the wind as large as store | A |
Shall I be still in suit | E |
Have I no harvest but a thorn | F |
To let me blood and not restore | A |
What I have lost with cordial fruit | E |
Sure there was wine | C |
Before my sighs did dry it there was corn | F |
Before my tears did drown it | G |
Is the year only lost to me | H |
Have I no bays to crown it | G |
No flowers no garlands gay all blasted | I |
All wasted | I |
Not so my heart but there is fruit | E |
And thou hast hands | J |
Recover all thy sigh blown age | K |
On double pleasures leave thy cold dispute | E |
Of what is fit and not Forsake thy cage | K |
Thy rope of sands | J |
Which petty thoughts have made and made to thee | H |
Good cable to enforce and draw | L |
And be thy law | L |
While thou didst wink and wouldst not see | H |
Away take heed | M |
I will abroad | B |
Call in thy death's head there tie up thy fears | N |
He that forbears | N |
To suit and serve his need | M |
Deserves his load | D |
But as I raved and grew more fierce and wild | O |
At every word | P |
Methoughts I heard one calling Child | O |
And I replied My Lord | Q |
George Herbert
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