To M. Denham On His Prospective Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHIJJKK| Or look'd I back unto the times hence flown | A |
| To praise those Muses and dislike our own | A |
| Or did I walk those P an gardens through | B |
| To kick the flowers and scorn their odours too | B |
| I might and justly be reputed here | C |
| One nicely mad or peevishly severe | D |
| But by Apollo as I worship wit | E |
| Where I have cause to burn perfumes to it | E |
| So I confess 'tis somewhat to do well | F |
| In our high art although we can't excel | F |
| Like thee or dare the buskins to unloose | G |
| Of thy brave bold and sweet Maronian muse | G |
| But since I'm call'd rare Denham to be gone | H |
| Take from thy Herrick this conclusion | I |
| 'Tis dignity in others if they be | J |
| Crown'd poets yet live princes under thee | J |
| The while their wreaths and purple robes do shine | K |
| Less by their own gems than those beams of thine | K |
Robert Herrick
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