Mourning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEBE FGFG HCHC IJIJ BKBK BGBG LMLM| You that decipher out the Fate | A |
| Of humane Off springs from the Skies | B |
| What mean these Infants which of late | A |
| Spring from the Starrs of Chlora's Eyes | B |
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| Her Eyes confus'd and doubled ore | C |
| With Tears suspended ere they flow | D |
| Seem bending upwards to restore | C |
| To Heaven whence it came their Woe | D |
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| When molding of the watry Sphears | B |
| Slow drops unty themselves away | E |
| As if she with those precious Tears | B |
| Would strow the ground where Strephon lay | E |
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| Yet some affirm pretending Art | F |
| Her Eyes have so her Bosome drown'd | G |
| Only to soften near her Heart | F |
| A place to fix another Wound | G |
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| And while vain Pomp does her restrain | H |
| Within her solitary Bowr | C |
| She courts her self in am'rous Rain | H |
| Her self both Danae and the Showr | C |
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| Nay others bolder hence esteem | I |
| Joy now so much her Master grown | J |
| That whatsoever does but seem | I |
| Like Grief is from her Windows thrown | J |
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| Nor that she payes while she survives | B |
| To her dead Love this Tribute due | K |
| But casts abroad these Donatives | B |
| At the installing of a new | K |
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| How wide they dream The Indian Slaves | B |
| That sink for Pearl through Seas profound | G |
| Would find her Tears yet deeper Waves | B |
| And not of one the bottom sound | G |
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| I yet my silent Judgment keep | L |
| Disputing not what they believe | M |
| But sure as oft as Women weep | L |
| It is to be suppos'd they grieve | M |
Andrew Marvell
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