In Praise Of Angling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FEGGEEHH IIJJKKLL MMNNDDOO PPEEQQRS TTUUVVWA EEXXYYDD

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 country pastimes flyF
Sad troops of human miseryE
Come serene looksG
Clear as the crystal brooksG
Or the pure azured heaven that smiles to seeE
The rich attendance on our povertyE
Peace and a secure mindH
Which ail men seek we only findH
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Abused mortals did you knowI
Where joy heart's 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 makeK
Nor murmurs e'er come nigh usL
Saving of fountains that glide by usL
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Here's no fantastic mask nor danceM
But of our kids that frisk and pranceM
Nor wars are seenN
Unless upon the greenN
Two harmless lambs are butting one the otherD
Which done both bleating run each to his motherD
And wounds are never foundO
Save what the ploughshare gives the groundO
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Here are no entrapping baitsP
To hasten to too hasty fatesP
Unless it beE
The fond credulityE
Of silly fish which worldling like still lookQ
Upon the bait but never on the hookQ
Nor envy 'less amongR
The birds for prize of their sweet songS
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Go let the diving negro seekT
For gems hid in some forlorn creekT
We all pearls scornU
Save what the dewy mornU
Congeals upon each little spire of grassV
Which careless shepherds beat down as they passV
And gold ne'er here appearsW
Save what the yellow Ceres bearsA
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Blest silent groves O may you beE
Forever mirth's best nurseryE
May pure contentsX
Forever pitch their tentsX
Upon these downs these rocks these mountainsY
And peace still slumber by these purling fountainsY
Which we may every yearD
Meet when we come a fishing hereD

Sir Henry Wotton



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