Ulysses And The Siren Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGHGIJEK LMLMNENE FOHOPQPQ REREESBS MGMGTETE UVWXYZYA2 FNFNYB2YR YC2YHD2E2D2E2| Siren Come worthy Greek Ulysses come | A |
| Possess these shores with me | B |
| The winds and seas are troublesome | A |
| And here we may be free | B |
| Here may we sit and view their toil | C |
| That travail in the deep | D |
| And joy the day in mirth the while | E |
| And spend the night in sleep | D |
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| Ulysses Fair Nymph if fame or honour were | F |
| To be attain'd with ease | G |
| Then would I come and rest me there | H |
| And leave such toils as these | G |
| But here it dwells and here must I | I |
| With danger seek it forth | J |
| To spend the time luxuriously | E |
| Becomes not men of worth | K |
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| Siren Ulysses O be not deceived | L |
| With that unreal name | M |
| This honour is a thing conceived | L |
| And rests on others' fame | M |
| Begotten only to molest | N |
| Our peace and to beguile | E |
| The best thing of our life our rest | N |
| And give us up to toil | E |
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| Ulysses Delicious Nymph suppose there were | F |
| No honour nor report | O |
| Yet manliness would scorn to wear | H |
| The time in idle sport | O |
| For toil doth give a better touch | P |
| To make us feel our joy | Q |
| And ease finds tediousness as much | P |
| As labour yields annoy | Q |
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| Siren Then pleasure likewise seems the shore | R |
| Whereto tends all your toil | E |
| Which you forgo to make it more | R |
| And perish oft the while | E |
| Who may disport them diversely | E |
| Find never tedious day | S |
| And ease may have variety | B |
| As well as action may | S |
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| Ulysses But natures of the noblest frame | M |
| These toils and dangers please | G |
| And they take comfort in the same | M |
| As much as you in ease | G |
| And with the thought of actions past | T |
| Are recreated still | E |
| When Pleasure leaves a touch at last | T |
| To show that it was ill | E |
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| Siren That doth Opinion only cause | U |
| That 's out of Custom bred | V |
| Which makes us many other laws | W |
| Than ever Nature did | X |
| No widows wail for our delights | Y |
| Our sports are without blood | Z |
| The world we see by warlike wights | Y |
| Receives more hurt than good | A2 |
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| Ulysses But yet the state of things require | F |
| These motions of unrest | N |
| And these great Spirits of high desire | F |
| Seem born to turn them best | N |
| To purge the mischiefs that increase | Y |
| And all good order mar | B2 |
| For oft we see a wicked peace | Y |
| To be well changed for war | R |
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| Siren Well well Ulysses then I see | Y |
| I shall not have thee here | C2 |
| And therefore I will come to thee | Y |
| And take my fortune there | H |
| I must be won that cannot win | D2 |
| Yet lost were I not won | E2 |
| For beauty hath created been | D2 |
| T' undo or be undone | E2 |
Samuel Daniel
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