In Praise Of Angling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FEGGEEHH IIJJKKLL MMNNDDOO PPEEQQRS TTUUVVWA EEXXYYDD| 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 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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In Praise Of Angling is a poem by Sir Henry Wotton. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.
