On My First Son Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE CDFF| Farewell thou child of my right hand and joy | A |
| My sin was too much hope of thee loved boy | A |
| Seven years thou wert lent to me and I thee pay | B |
| Exacted by thy fate on the just day | B |
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| Oh could I lose all father now For why | C |
| Will man lament the state he should envy | D |
| To have so soon 'scaped world's and flesh's rage | E |
| And if no other misery yet age | E |
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| Rest in soft peace and asked say Here doth lie | C |
| Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry | D |
| For whose sake henceforth all his vows be such | F |
| As what he loves may never like too much | F |
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