Melancholy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBBBDDEE DDDDFGBB| HENCE all you vain delights | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp As short as are the nights | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Wherein you spend your folly | B |
| There 's naught in this life sweet | C |
| If men were wise to see't | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp But only melancholy | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp O sweetest melancholy | B |
| Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes | D |
| A sight that piercing mortifies | D |
| A look that 's fasten'd to the ground | E |
| A tongue chain'd up without a sound | E |
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| Fountain heads and pathless groves | D |
| Places which pale passion loves | D |
| Moonlight walks when all the fowls | D |
| Are warmly housed save bats and owls | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp A midnight bell a parting groan | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp These are the sounds we feed upon | G |
| Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley | B |
| Nothing 's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy | B |
John Fletcher
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