Tobacco Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC AADC EFEC GGHC IIJC| The Indian weed withered quite | A |
| Green at noon cut down at night | A |
| Shows thy decay all flesh is hay | B |
| Thus thinke then drinke tobacco | C |
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| The pipe that is so lily white | A |
| Shows thee to be a mortal wight | A |
| And even such gone with a touch | D |
| Thus thinke then drinke tobacco | C |
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| And when the smoke ascends on high | E |
| Thinke thou beholdest the vanity | F |
| Of worldly stuffe gone with a puffe | E |
| Thus thinke then drinke tobacco | C |
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| And when the pipe grows foul within | G |
| Think on thy soule defil'd with sin | G |
| And then the fire it doth require | H |
| Thus thinke then drinke tobacco | C |
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| The ashes that are left behind | I |
| May serve to put thee still in mind | I |
| That unto dust return thou must | J |
| Thus thinke then drinke tobacco | C |
George Wither
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