I Prithee Spare Me Gentle Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBB CCDDD EEFGG HHIII| I prithee spare me gentle boy | A |
| Press me no more for that slight toy | A |
| That foolish trifle of an heart | B |
| I swear it will not do its part | B |
| Though thou dost thine employ'st thy pow'r and art | B |
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| For through long custom it has known | C |
| The little secrets and is grown | C |
| Sullen and wise will have its will | D |
| And like old hawks pursues that still | D |
| That makes least sport flies only where't can kill | D |
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| Some youth that has not made his story | E |
| Will think perchance the pain's the glory | E |
| And mannerly sit out love's feast | F |
| I shall be carving of the best | G |
| Rudely call for the last course 'fore the rest | G |
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| And oh when once that course is past | H |
| How short a time the feast doth last | H |
| Men rise away and scarce say grace | I |
| Or civilly once thank the face | I |
| That did invite but seek another place | I |
Sir John Suckling
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