To Sir John Berkley, Governor Of Exeter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCCDDEEFGHHIJKLMM| Stand forth brave man since fate has made thee here | A |
| The Hector over aged Exeter | B |
| Who for a long sad time has weeping stood | C |
| Like a poor lady lost in widowhood | C |
| But fears not now to see her safety sold | C |
| As other towns and cities were for gold | C |
| By those ignoble births which shame the stem | D |
| That gave progermination unto them | D |
| Whose restless ghosts shall hear their children sing | E |
| Our sires betrayed their country and their king | E |
| True if this city seven times rounded was | F |
| With rock and seven times circumflank'd with brass | G |
| Yet if thou wert not Berkley loyal proof | H |
| The senators down tumbling with the roof | H |
| Would into prais'd but pitied ruins fall | I |
| Leaving no show where stood the capitol | J |
| But thou art just and itchless and dost please | K |
| Thy Genius with two strengthening buttresses | L |
| Faith and affection which will never slip | M |
| To weaken this thy great dictatorship | M |
Robert Herrick
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