Integer Vitae Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIJ KLML NOPO QRST| The man of life upright | A |
| Whose guiltless heart is free | B |
| From all dishonest deeds | C |
| Or thought of vanity | B |
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| The man whose silent days | D |
| In harmless joys are spent | E |
| Whom hopes cannot delude | F |
| Nor sorrow discontent | E |
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| That man needs neither towers | G |
| Nor armour for defence | H |
| Nor secret vaults to fly | I |
| From thunder's violence | J |
| - | |
| He only can behold | K |
| With unaffrighted eyes | L |
| The horrors of the deep | M |
| And terrors of the skies | L |
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| Thus scorning all the cares | N |
| That fate or fortune brings | O |
| He makes the heaven his book | P |
| His wisdom heavenly things | O |
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| Good thoughts his only friends | Q |
| His wealth a well spent age | R |
| The earth his sober inn | S |
| And quiet pilgrimage | T |
Thomas Campion
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