Epitaph On S.p., A Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGFHBIBJKJK LMLMWeep 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 he 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 to 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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