Hos Ego Versiculos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEFF GGHH IIBB JJKK GGKK| A | |
| - | |
| - | |
| LIKE to the damaske rose you see | B |
| Or like the blossome on the tree | B |
| Or like the daintie flower of May | C |
| Or like the Morning to the day | C |
| Or like the Sunne or like the shade | D |
| Or like the Gourd which Jonas had | E |
| Even such is man whose thred is spun | F |
| Drawn out and cut and so is done | F |
| - | |
| The Rose withers the blossome blasteth | G |
| The flowre fades the morning hasteth | G |
| The Sunne sets the shadow flies | H |
| The Gourd consumes and man he dies | H |
| - | |
| Like to the blaze of fond delight | I |
| Or like a morning cleare and bright | I |
| Or like a frost or like a showre | B |
| Or like the pride of Babel's Tower | B |
| - | |
| Or like the houre that guides the time | J |
| Or like to beauty in her prime | J |
| Even such is man whose glory lends | K |
| His life a blaze or two and ends | K |
| - | |
| Delights vanish the morne o'ercasteth | G |
| The frost breaks the shower hasteth | G |
| The Tower falls the hower spends | K |
| The beauty fades and man's life ends | K |
| - | |
| - | |
| - |
Francis Quarles
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Hos Ego Versiculos poem by Francis Quarles
Best Poems of Francis Quarles