Blaney's Last Directions Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDEF GHIJKL MNGHOHDPAH HQRSNTGJMUBVWXA HYHAZA2AHB2C2ZG QABD2D2GBQHE2F2GG2 H2I2AJ2K2L2D AWXI2HM2| It is usual | A |
| for people in this country | B |
| out of pretended respect | C |
| but rather from an impertinent curiosity | B |
| to desire to see | B |
| persons | D |
| after they are | E |
| dead | F |
| - | |
| It is my earnest request that no person | G |
| on any pretence whatever | H |
| may be permitted to see my | I |
| corpse | J |
| but those who | K |
| unavoidably must | L |
| - | |
| I desire to be buried | M |
| in the north side of the churchyard | N |
| of Tregynon | G |
| somewhere about the centre | H |
| my coffin to be made in the most | O |
| plain and simple manner | H |
| without the usual fantastical decorations | D |
| and the more | P |
| perishable the material | A |
| the better | H |
| - | |
| I desire that no undertaker | H |
| or professed performer of funerals | Q |
| may be employed | R |
| but that I may be conveyed | S |
| to the churchyard | N |
| in some country hears | T |
| which may be hired for the occasion | G |
| and my corpse | J |
| to be carried | M |
| from hearse to the grave | U |
| immediately | B |
| without going into the church | V |
| by six of the chief Tregynon tenants | W |
| to whom I give two guineas each | X |
| for their trouble | A |
| - | |
| It is my earnes request and desire | H |
| to have no upper bearers | Y |
| or any persons whatever | H |
| invited to my funeral | A |
| which I desire may be at so | Z |
| early an hour as will best prevent | A2 |
| a concourse of people | A |
| from collecting together | H |
| the better sort | B2 |
| I presume will not intrude | C2 |
| as there is no | Z |
| invitation | G |
| - | |
| I have been present at the funerals | Q |
| of three of my uncles at Morville | A |
| I was pleased with the privacy and decency | B |
| with which all things were conducted | D2 |
| no strangers attended | D2 |
| all was done | G |
| by the servants of the family | B |
| It is my earnest desire to follow these examples | Q |
| however unpopular | H |
| and that | E2 |
| no coach | F2 |
| no escutcheon | G |
| and no pomp of any kind may appear | G2 |
| - | |
| I trust that my executor will be well justified | H2 |
| against the clamor and obloquy | I2 |
| of mercenary people | A |
| when he acts in performance of the last request | J2 |
| of a dying friend | K2 |
| who solemnly adjures him in the name of God | L2 |
| punctually to observe these directions | D |
| - | |
| codicil | A |
| I likewise give to all my servants | W |
| five guineas each | X |
| in lieu of all mourning | I2 |
| which it is my desire | H |
| no person may use on my account | M2 |
Ben Jonson
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