A Description Of The Countreys Recreations Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FEGGEEHH IIJJKLMM NNOODDPP QQEERRST UUVVWWXA EEYYZZDD| Quivering fears Heart tearing cares | A |
| Anxious sighs Untimely tears | A |
| Fly fly to Courts | B |
| Fly to fond worldling's sports | B |
| Where strained Sardonic smiles are glossing still | C |
| And grief is forced to laugh against her will | C |
| Where mirth's but mummery | D |
| And sorrows only real be | E |
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| Fly from our Countrey pastimes fly | F |
| Sad troops of humane misery | E |
| Come serene looks | G |
| Clear as the Crystal brooks | G |
| Or the pure azur'd heaven that smiles to see | E |
| The rich attendance on our poverty | E |
| Peace and a secure mind | H |
| Which all men seek we only find | H |
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| Abused Mortals did you know | I |
| Where Joy Hearts ease and comforts grow | I |
| You'd scorn proud towers | J |
| And seek them in these bowers | J |
| Where winds sometimes our woods perhaps may shake | K |
| But blustering care could never tempest mak | L |
| Nor murmurs e'er come nigh us | M |
| Saving of fountains that glide by us | M |
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| Here's no fantastick Mask nor dance | N |
| But of our Kids that frisk and prance | N |
| Nor wars are seen | O |
| Unless upon the green | O |
| Two harmless Lambs are butting one the other | D |
| Which done both bleating run each to his Mother | D |
| And wounds are never found | P |
| Save what the Plow share gives the ground | P |
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| Here are no false entrapping baits | Q |
| To hasten to too hasty fates | Q |
| Unless it be | E |
| The fond Credulity | E |
| Of silly fish which worldling like still look | R |
| Upon the Bait but never on the Hook | R |
| Nor envy uless among | S |
| The Birds for prize of their sweet song | T |
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| Go let the diving Negro seek | U |
| For Gems hid in some forlorn creek | U |
| We all Pearls scorn | V |
| Save what the dewy morn | V |
| Congeals upon each little spire of grass | W |
| Which careless Shepherds beat down as they pass | W |
| And gold ne'er here appears | X |
| Save what the yellow Ceres bears | A |
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| Blest silent Groves may ye be | E |
| For ever Mirth's best Nursery | E |
| May pure contents | Y |
| For ever pitch their tents | Y |
| Upon these Downs these Meads these Rocks these Mountains | Z |
| And peace still slumber by these purling Fountains | Z |
| Which we may every year | D |
| Find when we come a fishing here | D |
Sir Henry Wotton
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