Epitaph Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDEFAGAHCICJKJK LMLM| On Salathiel Peavy A Child of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel | A |
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| Weep with me all you that read | B |
| This little story | C |
| And know for whom a tear you shed | B |
| Death's self is sorry | C |
| 'Twas a child that so did thrive | D |
| In grace and feature | E |
| As Heaven and Nature seemed to strive | D |
| Which owned the creature | E |
| Years he numbered scarce thirteen | F |
| When Fates turned cruel | A |
| Yet three filled zodiacs had he been | G |
| The stage's jewel | A |
| And did act what now we moan | H |
| Old men so duly | C |
| As sooth the Parcae thought him one | I |
| He played so truly | C |
| 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 nw 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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