Melancholly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBB DDCCDDDDEEBB| Hence hence all you vaine delights | A |
| As short as are the nights | A |
| Wherein you spend your folly | B |
| Ther's nought in this life sweete | C |
| If men were wise to see'te | C |
| But only Melancholly | B |
| O sweetest Melancholly | B |
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| Welcome folded armes and fixed eyes | D |
| A sigh that piercing mortifies | D |
| A looke that's fastned to the ground | C |
| A tongue chayned upp without a sound | C |
| Fountains heads and pathlesse groves | D |
| Places which pale Passion loves | D |
| Moonlike wakes when all the Fowles | D |
| Are warmly housde save Batts and Owles | D |
| A midnight knell a parting groane | E |
| These are the sounds wee feede upon | E |
| Then stretch your bones in a still gloomy vally | B |
| Ther's nothing daynty sweete save Melancholly | B |
William Strode
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