A Description Of The Countreys Recreations Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FEGGEEHH IIJJKLMM NNOODDPP QQEERRST UUVVWWXA EEYYZZDD

Quivering fears Heart tearing caresA
Anxious sighs Untimely tearsA
Fly fly to CourtsB
Fly to fond worldling's sportsB
Where strained Sardonic smiles are glossing stillC
And grief is forced to laugh against her willC
Where mirth's but mummeryD
And sorrows only real beE
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Fly from our Countrey pastimes flyF
Sad troops of humane miseryE
Come serene looksG
Clear as the Crystal brooksG
Or the pure azur'd heaven that smiles to seeE
The rich attendance on our povertyE
Peace and a secure mindH
Which all men seek we only findH
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Abused Mortals did you knowI
Where Joy Hearts ease and comforts growI
You'd scorn proud towersJ
And seek them in these bowersJ
Where winds sometimes our woods perhaps may shakeK
But blustering care could never tempest makL
Nor murmurs e'er come nigh usM
Saving of fountains that glide by usM
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Here's no fantastick Mask nor danceN
But of our Kids that frisk and pranceN
Nor wars are seenO
Unless upon the greenO
Two harmless Lambs are butting one the otherD
Which done both bleating run each to his MotherD
And wounds are never foundP
Save what the Plow share gives the groundP
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Here are no false entrapping baitsQ
To hasten to too hasty fatesQ
Unless it beE
The fond CredulityE
Of silly fish which worldling like still lookR
Upon the Bait but never on the HookR
Nor envy uless amongS
The Birds for prize of their sweet songT
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Go let the diving Negro seekU
For Gems hid in some forlorn creekU
We all Pearls scornV
Save what the dewy mornV
Congeals upon each little spire of grassW
Which careless Shepherds beat down as they passW
And gold ne'er here appearsX
Save what the yellow Ceres bearsA
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Blest silent Groves may ye beE
For ever Mirth's best NurseryE
May pure contentsY
For ever pitch their tentsY
Upon these Downs these Meads these Rocks these MountainsZ
And peace still slumber by these purling FountainsZ
Which we may every yearD
Find when we come a fishing hereD

Sir Henry Wotton



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