A Fancy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Hee that his mirth hath losteA
Whose comfort is dismaidA
Whose hope is vaine whose faith is scornedA
Whose trust is all betraidA
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If he have held them deareB
And cannot cease to moaneC
Come let him take his place by meD
He shall not rue aloneC
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But if the smalest sweeteA
Be mixt with all his sowreB
If in the day the moneth the yeareB
He finde one lightsome howerB
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Then rest he by himselfE
He is noe mate for meD
Whose hope is falen whose succor voydeA
Whose hart his death must beD
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Yet not the wish d deathF
That hathe noe plainte nor lackeG
Which making free the better parteA
Is onely nature's sackeG
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Oh me that wer too wellH
My death is of the mindeA
Which alwayes yeeld s extreame painesI
Yet keepes the worst behindA
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As one that lives in sheweJ
But inwardly doth dieA
Whose knowledge is a bloody fieldA
Wheare all hope slaine doth lieA
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Whose harte the aulter isI
Whose spirit the sacrifizeI
Unto the Powers whome to appeaseI
Noe sorrowes can sufizeI
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Whose fancies are like thornesI
On which I goe by nightA
Whose arguments are like a hosteA
That force hath put to flightA
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Whose sense is passion's spyeK
Whose thoughtes like ruins oldA
Of Carthage or the famous towneC
That Sinon bought and soldA
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Which still before my faceI
My mortall foe doth layL
Whome love and fortune once advancedA
And nowe hath cast awayL
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O thoughtes noe thoughtes but woundesI
Sometimes the seate of JoyM
Sometimes the chaire of quiet restA
But nowe of all annoyM
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I sowed the feild of peaceI
My blisse was in the SpringeM
And day by day I ate the fruitA
That my Live's tree did bringG
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To nettels nowe my corneC
My feild is turnd to flintA
Where sitting in the cipres shadeA
I reade the hiacintA
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The joy the rest the lifeN
That I enioyed of yoreB
Came to my lot that by my losseI
My smarte might smarte the moreB
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Thus to unhappie menC
The best frames to the worsteA
O tyme O places O woordes O lookesI
Deere then but nowe accurstA
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In 'was' stood my delightA
In 'is' and 'shall' my woeJ
My horrors fastned in the 'yea '-
My hope hangs in the 'noe '-
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I looke for noe delightA
Releefe will come too lateA
Too late I finde I finde too wellH
Too well stoode my EstateA
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Behold heere is the endA
And nothing heere is sureB
Ah nothinge ells but plaints and caresI
Doth to the world enduerB
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Forsaken first was IA
Then utterly foregottenC
And he that came not to my faithO
Lo my reward hath gottenC
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Nowe Love where are thy lawesI
That make thy torments sweeteA
What is the cause that some through theeD
Have thought their death but meetA
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Thy stately chaste disdaineC
Thy secret thanckfulnesI
Thy grace reservd thy common lightA
That shines in worthinesI
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O that it were not soeI
Or that I could excuseI
O that the wrath of JelousieI
My judgement might abuseI
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O fraile unconstant kindA
And safe in truste to noe manC
Noe woemen angells are yet loeJ
My mistris is a womanC
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Yet hate I but the falteA
And not the faultie oneC
Nor can I rid me of the bondsI
Wherein I lie aloneC
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Alone I lie whose likeG
By love was never yetA
Nor rich nor poore nor younge nor oldA
Nor fond nor full of wittA
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Hers still remaine must IA
By wronge by death by shameP
I cannot blot out of my mindeA
That love wrought in her nameP
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I cannot set at naughtA
That I have held soe deareB
I cannot make it seem so farreB
That is indeede soe neareB
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Nor that I meane henceforthQ
This strange will to professeI
I never will betray such trustA
And fall to ficklenesseI
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Nor shall it ever faileR
That my word bare in handA
I gave my word my worde gave meD
Both worde and gaift shall standA
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Syth then it must be thusI
And this is all to illS
I yeelde me captiue to my curseI
My harde fate to fulfillS
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The solitarie woodesI
My Cittie shall becomeT
The darkest den shalbe my lodgeM
Whereto noe light shall comeT
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Of heban blacke my boordeA
The wormes my meate shalbeD
Wherewith my carcase shalbe fedA
Till thes doe feede on meD
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My wine of NiobeD
My bed the cragie rockeG
My harmony the serpent's hisseI
The shreikinge owle my cockeG
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Mine exercise naught ellsI
But raginge agoniesI
My bookes of spightfull fortune's foilesI
And drerye tragediesI
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My walkes the pathes of plaintA
My prospect into HellH
With Sisiphus and all his pheresI
In endles paines to dwellH
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And though I seeme to useI
The poet's fain d stileU
To figure forth my wofull plightA
My fall and my exileU
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Yet is my greeffe not faindA
Wherein I starve and pineC
Whoe feeleth most shall finde it leastA
Comparinge his with mineC
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My songe if anie askeG
Whose grievous case is suchV
Dy er thou let'st his name be knowneC
His follye showes too muchV
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But best were thee to hideA
And never come to lightA
For in the worle can none but theeD
These accents sound arightA
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And soe a end my tale is touldA
His life is but disdaindA
Whose sorrowes present paine him soeI
His pleasures are full faindA
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FinisI

Sir Edward Dyer



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