Silence. A Sonnet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIJKKLL MMAA| Peace my hearts blab be ever dumb | A |
| Sorrowes speak loud without a tongue | B |
| And my perplexed thoughts forbear | C |
| To breath your selves in any ear | C |
| Tis scarce a true or manly grief | D |
| Which gaddes abroad to find relief | D |
| Was ever stomack that lackt meat | E |
| Nourisht by what another eat | E |
| Can I bestow it or will woe | F |
| Forsake me when I bid it goe | F |
| Then Ile believe a wounded breast | G |
| May heal by shrift and purchase rest | G |
| But if imparting it I do | H |
| Not ease my self but trouble two | H |
| 'Tis better I alone possess | I |
| My treasure of unhappiness | J |
| Engrossing that which is my own | K |
| No longer then it is unknown | K |
| If silence be a kind of death | L |
| He kindles grief who gives it breath | L |
| But let it rak't in embers lye | M |
| On thine own hearth 'twill quickly dye | M |
| And spight of fate that very wombe | A |
| Which carries it shall prove its tombe | A |
Henry King
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