A Paraneaticall Or Advice Verse To His Friend, Mr John Wicks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFFFGGHHFF FIJFFFFFFKKFFLLMMNN| Is this a life to break thy sleep | A |
| To rise as soon as day doth peep | A |
| To tire thy patient ox or ass | B |
| By noon and let thy good days pass | B |
| Not knowing this that Jove decrees | C |
| Some mirth t' adulce man's miseries | C |
| No 'tis a life to have thine oil | D |
| Without extortion from thy soil | D |
| Thy faithful fields to yield thee grain | E |
| Although with some yet little pain | E |
| To have thy mind and nuptial bed | F |
| With fears and cares uncumbered | F |
| A pleasing wife that by thy side | F |
| Lies softly panting like a bride | F |
| This is to live and to endear | G |
| Those minutes Time has lent us here | G |
| Then while fates suffer live thou free | H |
| As is that air that circles thee | H |
| And crown thy temples too and let | F |
| Thy servant not thy own self sweat | F |
| To strut thy barns with sheaves of wheat | F |
| Time steals away like to a stream | I |
| And we glide hence away with them | J |
| No sound recalls the hours once fled | F |
| Or roses being withered | F |
| Nor us my friend when we are lost | F |
| Like to a dew or melted frost | F |
| Then live we mirthful while we should | F |
| And turn the iron age to gold | F |
| Let's feast and frolic sing and play | K |
| And thus less last than live our day | K |
| Whose life with care is overcast | F |
| That man's not said to live but last | F |
| Nor is't a life seven years to tell | L |
| But for to live that half seven well | L |
| And that we'll do as men who know | M |
| Some few sands spent we hence must go | M |
| Both to be blended in the urn | N |
| From whence there's never a return | N |
Robert Herrick
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