An Ode Written In The Peake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCB CECECE FEFEFE GCGCGC BGBGBG GCGBGC BBBBBB| This while we are abroad | A |
| Shall we not touch our Lyre | B |
| Shall we not sing an ODE | C |
| Shall that holy Fire | D |
| In vs that strongly glow'd | C |
| In this cold Ayre expire | B |
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| Long since the Summer layd | C |
| Her lustie Brau'rie downe | E |
| The Autumne halfe is way'd | C |
| And BOREAS 'gins to frowne | E |
| Since now I did behold | C |
| Great BRVTES first builded Towne | E |
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| Though in the vtmost Peake | F |
| A while we doe remaine | E |
| Amongst the Mountaines bleake | F |
| Expos'd to Sleet and Raine | E |
| No Sport our Houres shall breake | F |
| To exercise our Vaine | E |
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| What though bright PHOEBVS Beames | G |
| Refresh the Southerne Ground | C |
| And though the Princely Thames | G |
| With beautious Nymphs abound | C |
| And by old Camber's Streames | G |
| Be many Wonders found | C |
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| Yet many Riuers cleare | B |
| Here glide in Siluer Swathes | G |
| And what of all most deare | B |
| Buckston's delicious Bathes | G |
| Strong Ale and Noble Cheare | B |
| T' asswage breeme Winters scathes | G |
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| Those grim and horrid Caues | G |
| Whose Lookes affright the day | C |
| Wherein nice Nature saues | G |
| What she would not bewray | B |
| Our better leasure craues | G |
| And doth inuite our Lay | C |
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| In places farre or neere | B |
| Or famous or obscure | B |
| Where wholesome is the Ayre | B |
| Or where the most impure | B |
| All times and euery where | B |
| The Muse is still in vre | B |
Michael Drayton
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