An Elegy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDEF GHIG JKKJ LMML NOPN QRRS TRRT RJJR| Though beauty be the mark of praise | A |
| And yours of whom I sing be such | B |
| As not the world can praise too much | B |
| Yet 'tis your Virtue now I raise | A |
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| A virtue like allay so gone | C |
| Throughout your form as though that move | D |
| And draw and conquer all men's love | E |
| This subjects you to love of one | F |
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| Wherein you triumph yet because | G |
| 'Tis of your flesh and that you use | H |
| The noblest freedom not to choose | I |
| Against or faith or honour's laws | G |
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| But who should less expect from you | J |
| In whom alone Love lives again | K |
| By whom he is restored to men | K |
| And kept and bred and brought up true | J |
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| His falling temples you have rear'd | L |
| The wither'd garlands ta'en away | M |
| His altars kept from that decay | M |
| That envy wish'd and nature fear'd | L |
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| And on them burn so chaste a flame | N |
| With so much loyalty's expense | O |
| As Love to acquit such excellence | P |
| Is gone himself into your name | N |
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| And you are he the deity | Q |
| To whom all lovers are design'd | R |
| That would their better objects find | R |
| Among which faithful troop am I | S |
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| Who as an off'ring at your shrine | T |
| Have sung this hymn and here entreat | R |
| One spark of your diviner heat | R |
| To light upon a love of mine | T |
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| Which if it kindle not but scant | R |
| Appear and that to shortest view | J |
| Yet give me leave to adore in you | J |
| What I in her am grieved to want | R |
Ben Jonson
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