The White Island:or Place Of The Blest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCDB EFEB GHHB IIIB JJJB| In this world the Isle of Dreams | A |
| While we sit by sorrow's streams | A |
| Tears and terrors are our themes | A |
| Reciting | B |
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| But when once from hence we fly | C |
| More and more approaching nigh | C |
| Unto young eternity | D |
| Uniting | B |
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| In that whiter Island where | E |
| Things are evermore sincere | F |
| Candour here and lustre there | E |
| Delighting | B |
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| There no monstrous fancies shall | G |
| Out of hell an horror call | H |
| To create or cause at all | H |
| Affrighting | B |
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| There in calm and cooling sleep | I |
| We our eyes shall never steep | I |
| But eternal watch shall keep | I |
| Attending | B |
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| Pleasures such as shall pursue | J |
| Me immortalized and you | J |
| And fresh joys as never too | J |
| Have ending | B |
Robert Herrick
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