Fortunatus Nimium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC AEFGF AHIJI KLML NOPO QRSR T U| I | A |
| I have lain in the sun | B |
| I have toiled as I might | C |
| I have thought as I would | D |
| And now it is night | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| My bed full of sleep | E |
| My heart of content | F |
| For mirth that I met | G |
| The way that I went | F |
| - | |
| III | A |
| I welcome fatigue | H |
| While frenzy and care | I |
| Like thin summer clouds | J |
| Go melting in air | I |
| - | |
| IV | - |
| To dream as I may | K |
| And awake when I will | L |
| With the song of the birds | M |
| And the sun on the hill | L |
| - | |
| V | - |
| Or death were it death | N |
| To what should I wake | O |
| Who loved in my home | P |
| All life for its sake | O |
| - | |
| VI | - |
| What good have I wrought | Q |
| I laugh to have learned | R |
| That joy cannot come | S |
| Unless it be earned | R |
| - | |
| VII | - |
| For a happier lot | T |
| Than God giveth me | - |
| It never hath been | U |
| Nor ever shall be | - |
Robert Seymour Bridges
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