I Would And I Would Not Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEE BEBEFF GHGIBB GJGJEE GJGJEE EKEKBB JEJEEE EEEEKK J| I woulde it were not as it is | A |
| Or that I cared not yea or no | B |
| I woulde I thoughte it not amiss | C |
| Or that amiss mighte blamles goo | D |
| I woulde I were yet woulde I not | E |
| I mighte be gladd yet coulde I not | E |
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| I coulde desire to know the meane | B |
| Or that the meane desyre soughte | E |
| I woulde I coulde my fancye weane | B |
| From suche sweet joyes as Love hathe wroughte | E |
| Onlye my wishe is leaste of all | F |
| A badge whereby to know a thrall | F |
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| O happy man whiche doste aspire | G |
| To that whiche semeleye thou dost crave | H |
| Thrise happy man if thy desyre | G |
| Maye winn with hope good happ to have | I |
| But woe to me unhappy man | B |
| Whom hope nor happ acquiet cann | B |
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| The budds of hope are starvde with feare | G |
| And still his foe presents his face | J |
| My state if hope the palme shoulde beare | G |
| Unto my happ woulde be disgrace | J |
| As diamond in woode were set | E |
| Or Irus raggs in goulde I frett | E |
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| For loe my tyr d shoulders beare | G |
| Desyre's weery beatinge winges | J |
| And at my feet a clogg I weare | G |
| Tyde one wth selfe disdayning stringes | J |
| My wings to mounte aloft make hast | E |
| My clog doth sinke me downe as faste | E |
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| This is our state loe thus we stande | E |
| They ryse to fall that climbe to hye | K |
| The boye that fled kynge Minos lande | E |
| Maye learne the wise more love to flye | K |
| What gaynde his poynte agaynste the sonne | B |
| He drownde in seas himself that wonne | B |
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| Yet Icarus more happy was | J |
| By present deathe his cares to ende | E |
| Than I pore mann on whom alas | J |
| Tenn thousande deathes theire paynes do sende | E |
| Now greife now hope now loue now spyghte | E |
| Longe sorrows mixte withe shorte delyghte | E |
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| The pheere and fellowe of thy smarte | E |
| Prometheus I am indeede | E |
| Upon whose ever livinge harte | E |
| The greedy gryphes do daylye feede | E |
| But he that lyfts his harte so hye | K |
| Muste be contente to pine and dye | K |
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| Finis | J |
Sir Edward Dyer
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