On The Death Of Sir Henry Wootton Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAACCDEAAFFGGHHII JJKKHLMM| What shall we say since silent now is he | A |
| Who when he spoke all things would silent be | A |
| Who had so many languages in store | B |
| That only fame shall speak of him in more | B |
| Whom England now no more return'd must see | A |
| He's gone to heaven on his fourth embassy | A |
| On earth he travell'd often not to say | C |
| H' had been abroad or pass loose time away | C |
| In whatsoever land he chanc'd to come | D |
| He read the men and manners bringing home | E |
| Their wisdom learning and their piety | A |
| As if he went to conquer not to see | A |
| So well he understood the most and best | F |
| Of tongues that Babel sent into the West | F |
| Spoke them so truly that he had you'd swear | G |
| Not only liv'd but been born every where | G |
| Justly each nation's speech to him was known | H |
| Who for the world was made not us alone | H |
| Nor ought the language of that man be less | I |
| Who in his breast had all things to express | I |
| We say that learning's endless and blame Fate | J |
| For not allowing life a longer date | J |
| He did the utmost bounds of knowledge find | K |
| He found them not so large as was his mind | K |
| But like the brave Pell an youth did moan | H |
| Because that art had no more worlds than one | L |
| And when he saw that he through all had past | M |
| He dy'd lest he should idle grow at last | M |
Abraham Cowley
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