A Welcome Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEDF GHIHF JJJJF JAJAF KLKLFWelcome welcome do I sing | A |
Far more welcome than the spring | A |
He that parteth from you never | B |
Shall enjoy a spring for ever | B |
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He that to the voice is near | C |
Breaking from your iv'ry pale | D |
Need not walk abroad to hear | E |
The delightful nightingale | D |
Welcome welcome then | F |
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He that looks still on your eyes | G |
Though the winter have begun | H |
To benumb our arteries | I |
Shall not want the summer's sun | H |
Welcome welcome then | F |
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He that still may see your cheeks | J |
Where all rareness still reposes | J |
Is a fool if e'er he seeks | J |
Other lilies other roses | J |
Welcome welcome then | F |
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He to whom your soft lip yields | J |
And perceives your breath in kissing | A |
All the odours of the fields | J |
Never never shall be missing | A |
Welcome welcome then | F |
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He that question would anew | K |
What fair Eden was of old | L |
Let him rightly study you | K |
And a brief of that behold | L |
Welcome welcome then | F |
William Browne
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