The Man Of Woe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DDDDEE FEFEAA BGBGAA E| The mann whose thoughtes agaynste him do conspyre | A |
| One whom Mishapp her storye dothe depaynt | B |
| The mann of woe the matter of desier | A |
| Free of the dead that lives in endles plaint | B |
| His spirit am I whiche in this deserte lye | C |
| To rue his case whose cause I cannot flye | C |
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| Despayre my name whoe never findes releife | D |
| Frended of none but to my selfe a foe | D |
| An idle care mayntaynde by firme beleife | D |
| That prayse of faythe shall throughe my torments growe | D |
| And counte those hopes that others hartes do ease | E |
| Butt base conceites the common sense to please | E |
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| For sure I am I never shall attayne | F |
| The happy good from whence my joys aryse | E |
| Nor haue I powre my sorrows to refrayne | F |
| But wayle the wante when noughte ellse maye suffyse | E |
| Whereby my lyfe the shape of deathe muste beare | A |
| That deathe which feeles the worst that lyfe doth feare | A |
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| But what auayles withe tragicall complaynte | B |
| Not hopinge healpe the Furyes to awake | G |
| Or why shoulde I the happy mynds aquaynte | B |
| With doleful tunnes theire settled peace to shake | G |
| All ye that here behoulde Infortune's feare | A |
| May judge noe woe may withe my gref compare | A |
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| Finis | E |
Sir Edward Dyer
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