Retirement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDAAEEFGHHIIJJ AAKLMMNNFresh fields and woods the Earth's fair face | A |
God's foot stool and man's dwelling place | A |
I ask not why the first Believer | B |
Did love to be a country liver | B |
Who to secure pious content | C |
Did pitch by groves and wells his tent | C |
Where he might view the boundless sky | D |
And all those glorious lights on high | D |
With flying meteors mists and show'rs | A |
Subjected hills trees meads and flow'rs | A |
And ev'ry minute bless the King | E |
And wise Creator of each thing | E |
I ask not why he did remove | F |
To happy Mamre's holy grove | G |
Leaving the cities of the plain | H |
To Lot and his successless train | H |
All various lusts in cities still | I |
Are found they are the thrones of ill | I |
The dismal sinks where blood is spill'd | J |
Cages with much uncleanness fill'd | J |
But rural shades are the sweet fense | A |
Of piety and innocence | A |
They are the Meek's calm region where | K |
Angels descend and rule the sphere | L |
Where heaven lies leiger and the dove | M |
Duly as dew comes from above | M |
If Eden be on Earth at all | N |
'Tis that which we the country call | N |
Henry Vaughan
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