To My Worthy Friend Mr. George Sandys Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDECCBBFFBBGGHH EEEEEEIIGGEEJKBB| I presse not to the Quire nor dare I greet | A |
| The holy Place with my unhallow'd feet | A |
| My unwasht Muse pollutes not things Divine | B |
| Nor mingles her prophaner notes with thine | B |
| Here humbly at the Porch she listning stayes | C |
| And with glad eares sucks in thy Sacred Layes | C |
| So devout Penitents of old were wont | D |
| Some without doore and some beneath the Font | E |
| To stand and heare the Churches Liturgies | C |
| Yet not assist the solemne Exercise | C |
| Sufficeth her that she a Lay place gaine | B |
| To trim thy Vestments or but beare thy traine | B |
| Though nor in Tune nor Wing She reach thy Larke | F |
| Her Lyricke feet may dance before the Arke | F |
| Who knowes but that Her wandring eyes that run | B |
| Now hunting Glow wormes may adore the Sun | B |
| A pure Flame may shot by Almighty Power | G |
| Into my brest the earthy flame devoure | G |
| My Eyes in Penitentiall dew may steepe | H |
| That bryne which they for sensuall love did weepe | H |
| So though 'gainst Natures course fire may be quencht | E |
| With fire and water be with water drencht | E |
| Perhaps my restlesse Soule tyr'd with pursuit | E |
| Of mortall beautie seeking without fruit | E |
| Contentment there which hath not when enjoy'd | E |
| Quencht all her thirst nor satisfi'd though cloy'd | E |
| Weary of her vaine search below above | I |
| In the first Faire may find th' immortall Love | I |
| Prompted by thy Example then no more | G |
| In moulds of Clay will I my God adore | G |
| But teare those Idols from my Heart and Write | E |
| What his blest Sp'rit not fond Love shall endite | E |
| Then I no more shall court the Verdant Bay | J |
| But the dry leavelesse Trunk on Golgotha | K |
| And rather strive to gaine from thence one Thorne | B |
| Then all the flourishing Wreathes by Laureats worne | B |
Thomas Carew
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