To Sir Henry Wotton Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD CCC EFE GGG HGG III| HERE'S no more news than virtue I may as well | A |
| Tell you Calais or Saint Michael's tales as tell | A |
| That vice doth here habitually dwell | A |
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| Yet as to get stomachs we walk up and down | B |
| And toil to sweeten rest so may God frown | B |
| If but to loathe both I haunt court or town | B |
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| For here no one's from th' extremity | C |
| Of vice by any other reason free | C |
| But that the next to him still 's worse than he | C |
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| In this world's warfare they whom rugged Fate | D |
| God's commissary doth so throughly hate | D |
| As in the court's squadron to marshal their state | D |
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| if they stand arm'd with silly honesty | C |
| With wishes prayers and neat integrity | C |
| Like Indians 'gainst Spanish hosts they be | C |
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| Suspicious boldness to this place belongs | E |
| And to have as many ears as all have tongues | F |
| Tender to know tough to acknowledge wrongs | E |
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| Believe me sir in my youth's giddiest days | G |
| When to be like the court was a play's praise | G |
| Plays were not so like courts as courts like plays | G |
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| Then let us at these mimic antics jest | H |
| Whose deepest projects and egregious gests | G |
| Are but dull morals of a game at chests | G |
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| But now 'tis incongruity to smile | I |
| Therefore I end and bid farewell awhile | I |
| At court though from court were the better style | I |
John Donne
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