Lusty Youth Should Us Ensue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGG AAGG HHGG AAIJ KKLLM| Lusty Youth should us ensue | A |
| His merry heart shall sure all rue | A |
| For whatsoever they do him tell | B |
| It is not for him we know it well | B |
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| For they would have him his Liberty refrain | C |
| And all merry company for to disdain | C |
| But I will not so whatsoever they say | D |
| But follow his mind in all that we may | D |
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| How should Youth himself best use | E |
| But all disdainers for to refuse | F |
| Youth has as chief assurance | G |
| Honest Mirth with Virtue's pastance | G |
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| For in them consisteth great honour | A |
| Though that disdainers would therein put error | A |
| For they do sue to get them grace | G |
| All only riches to purchase | G |
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| With Good Order Counsel and Equity | H |
| Good Lord grant us our mansion to be | H |
| For without their good guidance | G |
| Youth should fall in great mischance | G |
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| For Youth is frail and prompt to do | A |
| As well vices as virtues to ensue | A |
| Wherefore by these he must be guided | I |
| And Virtue's pastance must be therein used | J |
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| Now unto God this prayer we make | K |
| That this rude play may well be take | K |
| And that we may our faults amend | L |
| An bliss obtain at our last end | L |
| Amen | M |
Henry Viii, King Of England
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