On A Dissembler Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGHHHIIJKBB FFHHBBLLBBMNEECould any shewe where Plynyes people dwell | A |
Whose head stands in their breast who cannot tell | A |
A smoothing lye because their open hart | B |
And lippes are joyn'd so neare I would depart | B |
As quick as thought and there forgett the wrongs | C |
Which I have suffer'd by deceitfull tongues | D |
I should depart where soules departed bee | E |
Who being freed from cloudy flesh can see | E |
Each other so immediately so cleare | F |
That none needs tongue to speak nor ears to hear | F |
Were tongues intended to express the soule | G |
And can wee better doe't with none at all | H |
Were words first made our meaning to reveale | H |
And are they usde our meaning to conceale | H |
The ayre by which wee see will that turne fogg | I |
Our breath turne mist Will that become a clogg | I |
That should unload the mynde Fall we upon | J |
Another Babell's sub confusion | K |
And in the self same language must wee finde | B |
A diverse faction of the words and minde | B |
Dull as I am that hugg'd such emptie ayre | F |
And never mark't the deede a phrase more faire | F |
More trusty and univocall joyne well | H |
Three or foure actions we may quickly spell | H |
A hollow hart if those no light can lend | B |
Read the whole sentence and observe the end | B |
I will not wayte so long the guilded man | L |
On whom I ground my speech no longer can | L |
Delude my sense nor can the gracefull arte | B |
Of kind dissembling button upp his hart | B |
His well spoke wrongs are such as hurtfull words | M |
Writt in a comely hand or bloody swords | N |
Sheath'd upp in velvett if hee draw on mee | E |
My armour proofe is incredulity | E |
William Strode
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