Epitaph X. On Mr Elijah Fenton,[1] At Easthamstead, In Berks, 1730 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFGG| This modest stone what few vain marbles can | A |
| May truly say Here lies an honest man | A |
| A poet blest beyond the poet's fate | B |
| Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great | B |
| Foe to loud praise and friend to learned ease | C |
| Content with science in the vale of peace | D |
| Calmly he look'd on either life and here | E |
| Saw nothing to regret or there to fear | F |
| From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied | G |
| Thank'd Heaven that he had lived and that he died | G |
Alexander Pope
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