Man's Civil War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHGI JDKD LMCM NOPO QRSR DDDD| MY hovering thoughts would fly to heaven | A |
| And quiet nestle in the sky | B |
| Fain would my ship in Virtue's shore | C |
| Without remove at anchor lie | B |
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| But mounting thoughts are haled down | D |
| With heavy poise of mortal load | E |
| And blustring storms deny my ship | F |
| In Virtue's haven secure abode | E |
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| When inward eye to heavenly sights | G |
| Doth draw my longing heart's desire | H |
| The world with jesses of delights | G |
| Would to her perch my thoughts retire | I |
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| Fon Fancy trains to Pleasure's lure | J |
| Though Reason stiffly do repine | D |
| Though Wisdom woo me to the saint | K |
| Yet Sense would win me to the shrine | D |
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| Where Reason loathes there Fancy loves | L |
| And overrules the captive will | M |
| Foes senses are to Virtue's lore | C |
| They draw the wit their wish to fill | M |
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| Need craves consent of soul to sense | N |
| Yet divers bents breed civil fray | O |
| Hard hap where halves must disagree | P |
| Or truce halves the whole betray | O |
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| O cruel fight where fighting friend | Q |
| With love doth kill a favoring foe | R |
| Where peace with sense is war with God | S |
| And self delight the seed of woe | R |
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| Dame Pleasure's drugs are steeped in sin | D |
| Their sugared taste doth breed annoy | D |
| O fickle sense beware her gin | D |
| Sell not thy soul to brittle joy | D |
Robert Southwell
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