To A Noble Friend In His Sickness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI| Untimely Feaver rude insulting guest | A |
| How didst thou with such unharmonious heat | B |
| Dare to distune his well composed rest | A |
| Whose heart so just and noble stroaks did beat | B |
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| What if his Youth and Spirits well may bear | C |
| More thick assaults and stronger siege then this | D |
| We measure not his courage but our fear | E |
| Not what our selves but what the Times may miss | D |
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| Had not that blood which thrice his veins did yield | F |
| Been better treasur'd for some glorious day | G |
| At farthest West to paint the liquid field | F |
| And with new Worlds his Masters love to pay | G |
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| But let those thoughts sweet Lord repose a while | H |
| Tend only now thy vigour to regain | I |
| And pardon these poor Rimes that would beguile | H |
| With mine own grief some portion of thy pain | I |
Sir Henry Wotton
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