Poet John Donne

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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 wellA
Tell you Calais or Saint Michael's tales as tellA
That vice doth here habitually dwellA
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Yet as to get stomachs we walk up and downB
And toil to sweeten rest so may God frownB
If but to loathe both I haunt court or townB
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For here no one's from th' extremityC
Of vice by any other reason freeC
But that the next to him still 's worse than heC
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In this world's warfare they whom rugged FateD
God's commissary doth so throughly hateD
As in the court's squadron to marshal their stateD
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if they stand arm'd with silly honestyC
With wishes prayers and neat integrityC
Like Indians 'gainst Spanish hosts they beC
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Suspicious boldness to this place belongsE
And to have as many ears as all have tonguesF
Tender to know tough to acknowledge wrongsE
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Believe me sir in my youth's giddiest daysG
When to be like the court was a play's praiseG
Plays were not so like courts as courts like playsG
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Then let us at these mimic antics jestH
Whose deepest projects and egregious gestsG
Are but dull morals of a game at chestsG
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But now 'tis incongruity to smileI
Therefore I end and bid farewell awhileI
At court though from court were the better styleI

John Donne



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