The Doubt Of Future Foes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEECCFGHHAA| The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy | A |
| And wit me warns to shun such snares as threaten mine annoy | A |
| For falsehood now doth flow and subjects' faith doth ebb | B |
| Which should not be if reason ruled or wisdom weaved the web | B |
| But clouds of joys untried do cloak aspiring minds | C |
| Which turn to rain of late repent by changed course of winds | D |
| The top of hope supposed the root upreared shall be | E |
| And fruitless all their grafted guile as shortly ye shall see | E |
| The dazzled eyes with pride which great ambition blinds | C |
| Shall be unsealed by worthy wights whose foresight falsehood finds | C |
| The daughter of debate that discord aye doth sow | F |
| Shall reap no gain where former rule still peace hath taught to know | G |
| No foreign banished wight shall anchor in this port | H |
| Our realm brooks not seditious sects let them elsewhere resort | H |
| My rusty sword through rest shall first his edge employ | A |
| To poll their tops that seek such change or gape for future joy | A |
Queen Elizabeth I
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