Written At An Inn At Henley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBDB EBEB FBFB GBGB| To thee fair Freedom I retire | A |
| From flattery cards and dice and din | B |
| Nor art thou found in mansions higher | C |
| Than the low cot or humble inn | B |
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| 'Tis here with boundless power I reign | D |
| And every health which I begin | B |
| Converts dull port to bright champagne | D |
| Such Freedom crowns it at an inn | B |
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| I fly from pomp I fly from plate | E |
| I fly from Falsehood's specious grin | B |
| Freedom I love and form I hate | E |
| And choose my lodgings at an inn | B |
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| Here waiter take my sordid ore | F |
| Which lackeys else might hope to win | B |
| It buys what courts have not in store | F |
| It buys me Freedom at an inn | B |
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| Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round | G |
| Where'er his stages may have been | B |
| May sigh to think he still has found | G |
| The warmest welcome at an inn | B |
William Shenstone
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