To His Brother, Nicholas Herrick. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHAAAAWhat others have with cheapness seen and ease | A |
In varnish'd maps by th' help of compasses | A |
Or read in volumes and those books with all | B |
Their large narrations incanonical | B |
Thou hast beheld those seas and countries far | C |
And tell'st to us what once they were and are | C |
So that with bold truth thou can'st now relate | D |
This kingdom's fortune and that empire's fate | D |
Can'st talk to us of Sharon where a spring | E |
Of roses have an endless flourishing | E |
Of Sion Sinai Nebo and with them | F |
Make known to us the new Jerusalem | G |
The Mount of Olives Calvary and where | H |
Is and hast seen thy Saviour's sepulchre | H |
So that the man that will but lay his ears | A |
As inapostate to the thing he hears | A |
Shall by his hearing quickly come to see | A |
The truth of travels less in books than thee | A |
Robert Herrick
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