Proof To No Purpose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFFGGHHIIJJ| You see this grntle stream that glides | A |
| Shoved on by quick succeeding tides | A |
| Try if this sober stream you can | B |
| Follow to th' wider ocean | C |
| And see if there it keeps unspent | D |
| In that congesting element | E |
| Next from that world of waters then | F |
| By pores and caverns back again | F |
| Induct that inadultrate same | G |
| Stream to the spring from whence it came | G |
| This with a wonder when ye do | H |
| As easy and else easier too | H |
| Then ye may recollect the grains | I |
| Of my particular remains | I |
| After a thousand lusters hurled | J |
| By roughing winds around the world | J |
Robert Herrick
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