Retirement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDAAEEFGHHIIJJ AAKLMMNN| Fresh 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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