Remonstrance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB DEDEFFB GHGHII JKJKB LBL B MNMNOO MPMPBBP QRQRSSP LQLQTTQ EUEUVVQ B| Opinion let me alone I am not thine | A |
| Prim Creed with categoric point forbear | B |
| To feature me my Lord by rule and line | A |
| Thou canst not measure Mistress Nature's hair | B |
| Not one sweet inch nay if thy sight is sharp | C |
| Would'st count the strings upon an angel's harp | C |
| Forbear forbear | B |
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| Oh let me love my Lord more fathom deep | D |
| Than there is line to sound with let me love | E |
| My fellow not as men that mandates keep | D |
| Yea all that's lovable below above | E |
| That let me love by heart by heart because | F |
| Free from the penal pressure of the laws | F |
| I find it fair | B |
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| The tears I weep by day and bitter night | G |
| Opinion for thy sole salt vintage fall | H |
| As morn by morn I rise with fresh delight | G |
| Time through my casement cheerily doth call | H |
| 'Nature is new 'tis birthday every day | I |
| Come feast with me let no man say me nay | I |
| Whate'er befall ' | - |
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| So fare I forth to feast I sit beside | J |
| Some brother bright but ere good morrow's passed | K |
| Burly Opinion wedging in hath cried | J |
| 'Thou shalt not sit by us to break thy fast | K |
| Save to our Rubric thou subscribe and swear | B |
| 'Religion hath blue eyes and yellow hair ' | - |
| She's Saxon all ' | - |
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| Then hard a hungered for my brother's grace | L |
| Till well nigh fain to swear his folly's true | B |
| In sad dissent I turn my longing face | L |
| To him that sits on the left 'Brother with you ' | - |
| 'Nay not with me save thou subscribe and swear | B |
| 'Religion hath black eyes and raven hair ' | - |
| Nought else is true ' | - |
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| Debarred of banquets that my heart could make | M |
| With every man on every day of life | N |
| I homeward turn my fires of pain to slake | M |
| In deep endearments of a worshipped wife | N |
| 'I love thee well dear Love ' quoth she 'and yet | O |
| Would that thy creed with mine completely met | O |
| As one not two ' | - |
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| Assassin Thief Opinion 'tis thy work | M |
| By Church by throne by hearth by every good | P |
| That's in the Town of Time I see thee lurk | M |
| And e'er some shadow stays where thou hast stood | P |
| Thou hand'st sweet Socrates his hemlock sour | B |
| Thou sav'st Barabbas in that hideous hour | B |
| And stabb'st the good | P |
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| Deliverer Christ thou rack'st the souls of men | Q |
| Thou tossest girls to lions and boys to flames | R |
| Thou hew'st Crusader down by Saracen | Q |
| Thou buildest closets full of secret shames | R |
| Indifferent cruel thou dost blow the blaze | S |
| Round Ridley or Servetus all thy days | S |
| Smell scorched I would | P |
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| Thou base born Accident of time and place | L |
| Bigot Pretender unto Judgment's throne | Q |
| Bastard that claimest with a cunning face | L |
| Those rights the true true Son of Man doth own | Q |
| By Love's authority thou Rebel cold | T |
| At head of civil wars and quarrels old | T |
| Thou Knife on a throne | Q |
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| I would thou left'st me free to live with love | E |
| And faith that through the love of love doth find | U |
| My Lord's dear presence in the stars above | E |
| The clods below the flesh without the mind | U |
| Within the bread the tear the smile | V |
| Opinion damned Intriguer gray with guile | V |
| Let me alone | Q |
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| Baltimore | B |
Sidney Lanier
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