Elegy I: Jealousy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGHIBBJBKKBBLM NNOOPIJJNQIHRR| Fond woman which wouldst have thy husband die | A |
| And yet complain'st of his great jealousy | B |
| If swol'n with poison he lay in his last bed | C |
| His body with a sere bark covered | D |
| Drawing his breath as thick and short as can | E |
| The nimblest crocheting musician | F |
| Ready with loathsome vomiting to spew | G |
| His soul out of one hell into a new | G |
| Made deaf with his poor kindred's howling cries | H |
| Begging with few feigned tears great legacies | I |
| Thou wouldst not weep but jolly and frolic be | B |
| As a slave which tomorrow should be free | B |
| Yet weep'st thou when thou seest him hungerly | J |
| Swallow his own death hearts bane jealousy | B |
| O give him many thanks he's courteous | K |
| That in suspecting kindly warneth us | K |
| Wee must not as we used flout openly | B |
| In scoffing riddles his deformity | B |
| Nor at his board together being sat | L |
| With words nor touch scarce looks adulterate | M |
| Nor when he swol'n and pampered with great fare | N |
| Sits down and snorts caged in his basket chair | N |
| Must we usurp his own bed any more | O |
| Nor kiss and play in his house as before | O |
| Now I see many dangers for that is | P |
| His realm his castle and his diocese | I |
| But if as envious men which would revile | J |
| Their Prince or coin his gold themselves exile | J |
| Into another country and do it there | N |
| We play in another house what should we fear | Q |
| There we will scorn his houshold policies | I |
| His seely plots and pensionary spies | H |
| As the inhabitants of Thames' right side | R |
| Do London's Mayor or Germans the Pope's pride | R |
John Donne
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