Sonnet: Philarete Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACC DEFEGG HBHBII AHAHAA GJGKBB GIGILL AGAGAA MENEII JGJGII BIBIJI I GOGOGOPP GIGIGIII G QIQIQIII NPNPIPNN I AG G GAG I AGGB G G| Now that my body dead aliue | A |
| Bereau'd of comfort lies in thrall | A |
| Doe thou my soul begin to thriue | B |
| And unto honie turne this gall | A |
| So shall we both through outward wo | C |
| The way to inward comfort know | C |
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| For as that foode my flesh I giue | D |
| Doth keepe in me this mortall breath | E |
| So souls on meditations hue | F |
| And shunne thereby immortall death | E |
| Nor art thou euer neerer rest | G |
| Than when thou find'st me most opprest | G |
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| First thinke my soule if I haue foes | H |
| That take a pleasure in my care | B |
| And to procure these outward woes | H |
| Haue thus enwrapt me vnaware | B |
| Thou should'st by much more carefull bee | I |
| Since greater foes lay waite for thee | I |
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| Then when mew'd vp in grates of Steele | A |
| Minding those ioyes mine eyes do misse | H |
| Thou find'st no torment thou dost feele | A |
| So grieuous as privation is | H |
| Muse how the damn'd in flames that glow | A |
| Pine in the loss of bliss they know | A |
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| Thou seest there's giuen so great might | G |
| To some that are but clay as I | J |
| Their very anger can affright | G |
| Which if in any thou espie | K |
| Thus thinke if mortal's frownes strike feare | B |
| How dreadfull will God's wrath appeare | B |
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| By my late hopes than none are crost | G |
| Consider those that firmer bee | I |
| And make the freedome I have lost | G |
| A meanes that may remember thee | I |
| Had Christ not thy redeemer bin | L |
| What horrid thrall thou hadst been in | L |
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| These iron chaines the bolts of Steele | A |
| Which other poore offenders griend | G |
| The wants and cares which they do feele | A |
| May bring some greater thing to mind | G |
| For by their griefe thou shalt doe well | A |
| To thinke upon the paines of hell | A |
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| Or when through me thou seest a man | M |
| Condemned vnto a mortall death | E |
| How sad he lookes how pale how Wan | N |
| Drawing with fear his panting breath | E |
| Thinke if in that such griefe thou see | I |
| How sad will Go yee cursed bee | I |
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| Againe when he that fear'd to dye | J |
| Past hope doth see his pardon brought | G |
| Reade but the joy that's in his eye | J |
| And then conuey it to thy thought | G |
| There thinke betwixt my heart and thee | I |
| How sweet will Come yee blessed bee | I |
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| Thus if thou doe though closed here | B |
| My bondage I shall deem the lesse | I |
| I neither shall have cause to feare | B |
| Nor yet bevvaile my sad distresse | I |
| For whether Hue or pine or dye | J |
| We shall haue blisse eternally | I |
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| Willy | I |
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| Trust me I see the cage doth some birds good | G |
| And if they do not suffer too much wrong | O |
| Will teach them sweeter descants than the wood | G |
| Beleeu't I like the subiect of thy song | O |
| It showes thou art in no distempered mood | G |
| But cause to heare the residue I long | O |
| My sheep to morrow I will nearer bring | P |
| And spend the day to heare thee talk and sing | P |
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| Yet ere we part Roget to areed | G |
| Of whom thou learn'dst to make such songs as these | I |
| I neuer yet heard any shepheard's reede | G |
| Tune in mishap a straine that more could please | I |
| Surely thou dost inuoke at this thy need | G |
| Some power that we neglect in other layes | I |
| For here's a name and words that but few swaines | I |
| Haue mentioned at their meeting on the plaines | I |
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| Roget | G |
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| Indeed 'tis true and they are sore to blame | Q |
| That doe so much neglect it in their songs | I |
| For thence proceedeth such a worthy fame | Q |
| As is not subject vnto enue's wrongs | I |
| That is the most to be respected name | Q |
| Of our true Pan whose worth sits on all tongues | I |
| And what the ancient shepheards vse to prayse | I |
| In sacred anthems sung on holy dayes | I |
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| Hee that first taught his musike such a straine | N |
| Was that sweet shepheard who vntill a king | P |
| Kept sheepe upon the hony milky plaine | N |
| That is inricht by Jordan's watering | P |
| He in his troubles eased the bodie's paines | I |
| By measures raised to the souJe's rauishing | P |
| And his sweet numbers onely most diuine | N |
| Gaue first the being to this song of mine | N |
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| Willy | I |
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| Let his good spirit euer with thee dwell | A |
| That I might hear such musicke every day | G |
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| Philarete | G |
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| Thankes but would now it pleased thee to play | G |
| Yet sure 'tis late thy weather rings his bell | A |
| And swaines to fold or homeward drive away | G |
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| Willy | I |
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| And yon goes Cuddy therefore fare thou well | A |
| Fie make his sheepe for me a little stay | G |
| And if thou thinke it fit I'll bring him too | G |
| Next morning hither | B |
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| Philarete | G |
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| Prithee Willy do | G |
George Wither
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