In Praise Of Angling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FEGGEEHH IIJJKKLL MMNNDDOO PPEEQQRS TTUUVVWA EEXXYYDDQuivering 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 country pastimes fly | F |
Sad troops of human misery | E |
Come serene looks | G |
Clear as the crystal brooks | G |
Or the pure azured heaven that smiles to see | E |
The rich attendance on our poverty | E |
Peace and a secure mind | H |
Which ail men seek we only find | H |
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Abused mortals did you know | I |
Where joy heart's 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 make | K |
Nor murmurs e'er come nigh us | L |
Saving of fountains that glide by us | L |
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Here's no fantastic mask nor dance | M |
But of our kids that frisk and prance | M |
Nor wars are seen | N |
Unless upon the green | N |
Two harmless lambs are butting one the other | D |
Which done both bleating run each to his mother | D |
And wounds are never found | O |
Save what the ploughshare gives the ground | O |
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Here are no entrapping baits | P |
To hasten to too hasty fates | P |
Unless it be | E |
The fond credulity | E |
Of silly fish which worldling like still look | Q |
Upon the bait but never on the hook | Q |
Nor envy 'less among | R |
The birds for prize of their sweet song | S |
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Go let the diving negro seek | T |
For gems hid in some forlorn creek | T |
We all pearls scorn | U |
Save what the dewy morn | U |
Congeals upon each little spire of grass | V |
Which careless shepherds beat down as they pass | V |
And gold ne'er here appears | W |
Save what the yellow Ceres bears | A |
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Blest silent groves O may you be | E |
Forever mirth's best nursery | E |
May pure contents | X |
Forever pitch their tents | X |
Upon these downs these rocks these mountains | Y |
And peace still slumber by these purling fountains | Y |
Which we may every year | D |
Meet when we come a fishing here | D |
Sir Henry Wotton
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