His Grange, Or Private Wealth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFEGHGHIJIKLMLM NONOPQPRSPTP| Though clock | A |
| To tell how night draws hence I've none | B |
| A cock | A |
| I have to sing how day draws on | C |
| I have | D |
| A maid my Prue by good luck sent | E |
| To save | F |
| That little Fates me gave or lent | E |
| A hen | G |
| I keep which creeking day by day | H |
| Tells when | G |
| She goes her long white egg to lay | H |
| A goose | I |
| I have which with a jealous ear | J |
| Lets loose | I |
| Her tongue to tell what danger's near | K |
| A lamb | L |
| I keep tame with my morsels fed | M |
| Whose dam | L |
| An orphan left him lately dead | M |
| A cat | N |
| I keep that plays about my house | O |
| Grown fat | N |
| With eating many a miching mouse | O |
| To these | P |
| A Trasy I do keep whereby | Q |
| I please | P |
| The more my rural privacy | R |
| Which are | S |
| But toys to give my heart some ease | P |
| Where care | T |
| None is slight things do lightly please | P |
Robert Herrick
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