An Epitaph On A Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHBIB JKJKLMLM| Weep with me all you that read | A |
| This little story | B |
| And know for whom a tear you shed | A |
| Death's self is sorry | B |
| 'Twas a child that so did thrive | C |
| In grace and feature | D |
| As heaven and nature seemed to strive | C |
| Which owned the creature | D |
| - | |
| Years he numbered scarce thirteen | E |
| When fates turned cruel | F |
| Yet three filled zodiacs had be been | G |
| The stage's jewel | F |
| And did act what now we moan | H |
| Old men so duly | B |
| As sooth the parcae thought him one | I |
| He played so truly | B |
| - | |
| So by error so his fate | J |
| They all consented | K |
| But viewing him since alas too late | J |
| They have repented | K |
| And have sought to give new birth | L |
| In baths to steep him | M |
| But being so much too good for earth | L |
| Heaven vows to keep him | M |
Ben Jonson
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