Content And Rich Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MCNC OJPJ QRSR TUCV WXYX ZA2B2A2 C2D2ID2 UE2B2E2 F2G2E2G2 CE2H2E2 I2E2J2E2 K2B2L2B2| I dwell in Grace's court | A |
| Enriched with Virtue's rights | B |
| Faith guides my wit Love leads my will | C |
| Hope all my mind delights | B |
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| In lowly vales I mount | D |
| To pleasure's highest pitch | E |
| My silly shroud true honour brings | F |
| My poor estate is rich | E |
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| My conscience is my crown | G |
| Contented thoughts my rest | H |
| My heart is happy in itself | I |
| My bliss is in my breast | H |
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| Enough I reckon wealth | J |
| That mean the surest lot | K |
| That lies too high for base contempt | L |
| Too low for envy's shot | K |
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| My wishes are but few | M |
| All easy to fulfil | C |
| I make the limits of my power | N |
| The bounds unto my will | C |
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| I fear no care for gold | O |
| Well doing is my wealth | J |
| My mind to me an empire is | P |
| While grace affordeth health | J |
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| I clip high climbing thoughts | Q |
| The wings of swelling pride | R |
| Their fall is worst that from the heigh | S |
| Of greatest honour slide | R |
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| Since sails of largest size | T |
| The storm doth soonest tear | U |
| I bear so low and small a sail | C |
| As freeth me from fear | V |
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| I wrestle not with rage | W |
| While fury's flame doth burn | X |
| It is in vain to stop the stream | Y |
| Until the tide doth turn | X |
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| But when the flame is out | Z |
| And ebbing wrath doth end | A2 |
| I turn a late enraged foe | B2 |
| Into a quiet friend | A2 |
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| And taught with often proof | C2 |
| A temper'd calm I find | D2 |
| To be most solace to itself | I |
| Best cure for angry mind | D2 |
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| Spare diet is my fare | U |
| My clothes more fit than fine | E2 |
| I know I feed and clothe a foe | B2 |
| That pamper'd would repine | E2 |
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| I envy not their hap | F2 |
| Whom favour doth advance | G2 |
| I take no pleasure in their pain | E2 |
| That have less happy chance | G2 |
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| To rise by others' fall | C |
| I deem a losing gain | E2 |
| All states with others' ruin built | H2 |
| To ruin run amain | E2 |
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| No change of fortune's calm | I2 |
| Can cast my comforts down | E2 |
| When fortune smiles I smile to think | J2 |
| How quickly she will frown | E2 |
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| And when in froward mood | K2 |
| She prov'd an angry foe | B2 |
| Small gain I found to let her come | L2 |
| Less loss to let her go | B2 |
Robert Southwell
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