To Dean Bourn, A Rude River In Devon, By Which Sometimes He Lived Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGHII| Dean Bourn farewell I never look to see | A |
| Dean or thy watery incivility | A |
| Thy rocky bottom that doth tear thy streams | B |
| And makes them frantic even to all extremes | B |
| To my content I never should behold | C |
| Were thy streams silver or thy rocks all gold | C |
| Rocky thou art and rocky we discover | D |
| Thy men and rocky are thy ways all over | D |
| O men O manners now and ever known | E |
| To be a rocky generation | F |
| A people currish churlish as the seas | G |
| And rude almost as rudest savages | H |
| With whom I did and may re sojourn when | I |
| Rocks turn to rivers rivers turn to men | I |
Robert Herrick
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