On The Tombs In Westminster Abbey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEFGGHHIFJJKK| Mortality behold and fear | A |
| What a change of flesh is here | B |
| Think how many royal bones | C |
| Sleep within this heap of stones | C |
| Here they lie had realms and lands | D |
| Who now want strength to stir their hands | D |
| Where from their pulpits seal'd with dust | E |
| They preach 'In greatness is no trust ' | F |
| Here 's an acre sown indeed | G |
| With the richest royall'st seed | G |
| That the earth did e'er suck in | H |
| Since the first man died for sin | H |
| Here the bones of birth have cried | I |
| 'Though gods they were as men they died ' | F |
| Here are sands ignoble things | J |
| Dropt from the ruin'd sides of kings | J |
| Here 's a world of pomp and state | K |
| Buried in dust once dead by fate | K |
Francis Beaumont
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