The Means To Attain Happy Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EDED FGFG| Martial the things that do attain | A |
| The happy life be these I find | B |
| The richesse left not got with pain | A |
| The fruitful ground the quiet mind | B |
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| The equal friend no grudge no strife | C |
| No charge of rule nor governance | D |
| Without disease the healthful life | C |
| The household of continuance | D |
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| The mean diet no delicate fare | E |
| True wisdom join'd with simpleness | D |
| The night discharg egrave d of all care | E |
| Where wine the wit may not oppress | D |
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| The faithful wife without debate | F |
| Such sleeps as may beguile the night | G |
| Contented with thine own estate | F |
| Ne wish for death ne fear his might | G |
Henry Howard
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