To Mr. Rowland Woodward Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD CCC EEE AAA FFF AAA GGH IJI KKL| LIKE one who in her third widowhood doth profess | A |
| Herself a nun tied to retiredness | A |
| So affects my Muse now a chaste fallowness | A |
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| Since she to few yet to too many hath shown | B |
| How love song weeds and satiric thorns are grown | B |
| Where seeds of better arts were early sown | B |
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| Though to use and love poetry to me | C |
| Betroth'd to no one art be no adultery | C |
| Omissions of good ill as ill deeds be | C |
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| For though to us it seems but light and thin | D |
| Yet in those faithful scales where God throws in | D |
| Men's works vanity weighs as much as sin | D |
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| If our souls have stain'd their first white yet we | C |
| May clothe them with faith and dear honesty | C |
| Which God imputes as native purity | C |
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| There is no virtue but religion | E |
| Wise valiant sober just are names which none | E |
| Want which want not vice covering discretion | E |
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| Seek we then ourselves in ourselves for as | A |
| Men force the sun with much more force to pass | A |
| By gathering his beams with a crystal glass | A |
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| So we if we into ourselves will turn | F |
| Blowing our spark of virtue may out burn | F |
| The straw which doth about our hearts sojourn | F |
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| You know physicians when they would infuse | A |
| Into any oil the souls of simples use | A |
| Places where they may lie still warm to choose | A |
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| So works retiredness in us To roam | G |
| Giddily and be everywhere but at home | G |
| Such freedom doth a banishment become | H |
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| We are but farmers of ourselves yet may | I |
| If we can stock ourselves and thrive uplay | J |
| Much much dear treasure for the great rent day | I |
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| Manure thyself then to thyself be improved | K |
| And with vain outward things be no more moved | K |
| But to know that I love thee and would be loved | L |
John Donne
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