Ubi Sunt Qui Ante Nos Fuerunt? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB BBADDA EEFGGF CCCHHCWere beth they that biforen us weren | A |
Houndes ladden and havekes beren | A |
And hadden feld and wode | B |
The riche levedies in hoere bour | C |
That wereden gold in hoere tressour | C |
With hoere brightte rode | B |
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Eten and drounken and maden hem glad | B |
Hoere lif was al with gamen i lad | B |
Men kneleden hem biforen | A |
They beren hem wel swithe heye | D |
And in a twincling of an eye | D |
Hoere soules weren forloren | A |
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Were is that lawhing and that song | E |
That trayling and that proude gong | E |
Tho havekes and tho houndes | F |
Al that joye is went away | G |
That wele is comen to weylaway | G |
To manye harde stoundes | F |
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Hoere paradis they nomen here | C |
And nou they lyen in helle i fere | C |
The fuir hit brennes hevere | C |
Long is ay and long is o | H |
Long is wy and long is wo | H |
Thennes ne cometh they nevere | C |
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