A Skeltoniad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEECCFFGGGGAH AAGGIIJJIIKKFFEE| The Muse should be sprightly | A |
| Yet not handling lightly | A |
| Things graue as much loath | B |
| Things that be slight to cloath | B |
| Curiously To retayne | C |
| The Comelinesse in meane | C |
| Is true Knowledge and Wit | D |
| Not me forc'd Rage doth fit | D |
| That I thereto should lacke | E |
| Tabacco or need Sacke | E |
| Which to the colder Braine | C |
| Is the true Hyppocrene | C |
| Nor did I euer care | F |
| For great Fooles nor them spare | F |
| Vertue though neglected | G |
| Is not so deiected | G |
| As vilely to descend | G |
| To low Basenesse their end | G |
| Neyther each ryming Slaue | A |
| Deserues the Name to haue | H |
| Of Poet so the Rabble | A |
| Of Fooles for the Table | A |
| That haue their Iests by Heart | G |
| As an Actor his Part | G |
| Might assume them Chayres | I |
| Amongst the Muses Heyres | I |
| Parnassus is not clome | J |
| By euery such Mome | J |
| Vp whose steep side who swerues | I |
| It behoues t' haue strong Nerues | I |
| My Resolution such | K |
| How well and not how much | K |
| To write thus doe I fare | F |
| Like some few good that care | F |
| The euill sort among | E |
| How well to liue and not how long | E |
Michael Drayton
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