An Epitaph Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDDDDDEEDDDD| Enough and leave the rest to Fame | A |
| 'Tis to commend her but to name | A |
| Courtship which living she declined | B |
| When dead to offer were unkind | B |
| Nor can the truest wit or friend | C |
| Without detracting her commend | C |
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| To say she lived a virgin chaste | D |
| In this age loose and all unlaced | D |
| Nor was when vice is so allowed | D |
| Of virtue or ashamed or proud | D |
| That her soul was on Heaven so bent | D |
| No minute but it came and went | D |
| That ready her last debt to pay | E |
| She summ'd her life up every day | E |
| Modest as morn as mid day bright | D |
| Gentle as evening cool as night | D |
| 'Tis true but all too weakly said | D |
| 'Twas more significant she's dead | D |
Andrew Marvell
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