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