Epitaph Xiv. On Edmund Duke Of Buckingham, Who Died In The Nineteenth Year Of His Age, 1735 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFGHIIJJ| If modest youth with cool reflection crown'd | A |
| And every opening virtue blooming round | A |
| Could save a parent's justest pride from fate | B |
| Or add one patriot to a sinking state | B |
| This weeping marble had not ask'd thy tear | C |
| Or sadly told how many hopes lie here | D |
| The living virtue now had shone approved | E |
| The senate heard him and his country loved | F |
| Yet softer honours and less noisy fame | G |
| Attend the shade of gentle Buckingham | H |
| In whom a race for courage famed and art | I |
| Ends in the milder merit of the heart | I |
| And chiefs or sages long to Britain given | J |
| Pays the last tribute of a saint to Heaven | J |
Alexander Pope
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