The Things That Cause A Quiet Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EDED FGFG

My friend the things that do attainA
The happy life be these I findB
The riches left not got with painA
The fruitful ground the quiet mindB
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The equal friend no grudge no strifeC
No charge of rule nor governanceD
Without disease the healthy lifeC
The household of continuanceD
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The mean diet no dainty fareE
True wisdom joined with simplenessD
The night discharged of all careE
Where wine the wit may not oppressD
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The faithful wife without debateF
Such sleeps as may beguile the nightG
Content thyself with thine estateF
Neither wish death nor fear his mightG

Henry Howard



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