Satire Iii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHIJKLLMM NNOOPPQQRSTTUUVFKJWX YZJJA2A2LLB2B2C2C2JJ JJPPD2D2E2E2DDJJF2F2 UUPPJJG2G2LLD2D2JJH2 H2I2I2JJSSJ2J2K2K2PP JJJJPPL2L2DDM2N2O2O2Kind pity chokes my spleen brave scorn forbids | A |
Those tears to issue which swell my eyelids | A |
I must not laugh nor weep sins and be wise | B |
Can railing then cure these worn maladies | C |
Is not our mistress fair Religion | D |
As worthy of all our souls' devotion | D |
As virtue was in the first blinded age | E |
Are not heaven's joys as valiant to assuage | E |
Lusts as earth's honour was to them Alas | F |
As we do them in means shall they surpass | F |
Us in the end and shall thy father's spirit | G |
Meet blind philosophers in heaven whose merit | G |
Of strict life may be imputed faith and hear | H |
Thee whom he taught so easy ways and near | I |
To follow damn'd Oh if thou dar'st fear this | J |
This fear great courage and high valour is | K |
Dar'st thou aid mutinous Dutch and dar'st thou lay | L |
Thee in ships' wooden sepulchres a prey | L |
To leaders' rage to storms to shot to dearth | M |
Dar'st thou dive seas and dungeons of the earth | M |
Hast thou courageous fire to thaw the ice | N |
Of frozen North discoveries and thrice | N |
Colder than salamanders like divine | O |
Children in th' oven fires of Spain and the Line | O |
Whose countries limbecs to our bodies be | P |
Canst thou for gain bear and must every he | P |
Which cries not 'Goddess ' to thy mistress draw | Q |
Or eat thy poisonous words Courage of straw | Q |
O desperate coward wilt thou seem bold and | R |
To thy foes and his who made thee to stand | S |
Sentinel in his world's garrison thus yield | T |
And for forbidden wars leave th' appointed field | T |
Know thy foes the foul devil whom thou | U |
Strivest to please for hate not love would allow | U |
Thee fain his whole realm to be quit and as | V |
The world's all parts wither away and pass | F |
So the world's self thy other lov'd foe is | K |
In her decrepit wane and thou loving this | J |
Dost love a wither'd and worn strumpet last | W |
Flesh itself's death and joys which flesh can taste | X |
Thou lovest and thy fair goodly soul which doth | Y |
Give this flesh power to taste joy thou dost loathe | Z |
Seek true religion O where Mirreus | J |
Thinking her unhous'd here and fled from us | J |
Seeks her at Rome there because he doth know | A2 |
That she was there a thousand years ago | A2 |
He loves her rags so as we here obey | L |
The statecloth where the prince sate yesterday | L |
Crantz to such brave loves will not be enthrall'd | B2 |
But loves her only who at Geneva is call'd | B2 |
Religion plain simple sullen young | C2 |
Contemptuous yet unhandsome as among | C2 |
Lecherous humours there is one that judges | J |
No wenches wholesome but coarse country drudges | J |
Graius stays still at home here and because | J |
Some preachers vile ambitious bawds and laws | J |
Still new like fashions bid him think that she | P |
Which dwells with us is only perfect he | P |
Embraceth her whom his godfathers will | D2 |
Tender to him being tender as wards still | D2 |
Take such wives as their guardians offer or | E2 |
Pay values Careless Phrygius doth abhor | E2 |
All because all cannot be good as one | D |
Knowing some women whores dares marry none | D |
Graccus loves all as one and thinks that so | J |
As women do in divers countries go | J |
In divers habits yet are still one kind | F2 |
So doth so is Religion and this blind | F2 |
ness too much light breeds but unmoved thou | U |
Of force must one and forc'd but one allow | U |
And the right ask thy father which is she | P |
Let him ask his though truth and falsehood be | P |
Near twins yet truth a little elder is | J |
Be busy to seek her believe me this | J |
He's not of none nor worst that seeks the best | G2 |
To adore or scorn an image or protest | G2 |
May all be bad doubt wisely in strange way | L |
To stand inquiring right is not to stray | L |
To sleep or run wrong is On a huge hill | D2 |
Cragged and steep Truth stands and he that will | D2 |
Reach her about must and about must go | J |
And what the hill's suddenness resists win so | J |
Yet strive so that before age death's twilight | H2 |
Thy soul rest for none can work in that night | H2 |
To will implies delay therefore now do | I2 |
Hard deeds the body's pains hard knowledge too | I2 |
The mind's endeavours reach and mysteries | J |
Are like the sun dazzling yet plain to all eyes | J |
Keep the truth which thou hast found men do not stand | S |
In so ill case that God hath with his hand | S |
Sign'd kings' blank charters to kill whom they hate | J2 |
Nor are they vicars but hangmen to fate | J2 |
Fool and wretch wilt thou let thy soul be tied | K2 |
To man's laws by which she shall not be tried | K2 |
At the last day Oh will it then boot thee | P |
To say a Philip or a Gregory | P |
A Harry or a Martin taught thee this | J |
Is not this excuse for mere contraries | J |
Equally strong Cannot both sides say so | J |
That thou mayest rightly obey power her bounds know | J |
Those past her nature and name is chang'd to be | P |
Then humble to her is idolatry | P |
As streams are power is those blest flowers that dwell | L2 |
At the rough stream's calm head thrive and do well | L2 |
But having left their roots and themselves given | D |
To the stream's tyrannous rage alas are driven | D |
Through mills and rocks and woods and at last almost | M2 |
Consum'd in going in the sea are lost | N2 |
So perish souls which more choose men's unjust | O2 |
Power from God claim'd than God himself to trust | O2 |
John Donne
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