Epitaph On A Beloved Friend.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A BCDDAAEEFFGGHHIIJJKK BCAALLMM| Greek Astaer prin men elampes eni tsuoisin hepsos | A |
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| Plato's Epitaph Epig Gr c Jacobs p quoted by Diog Laertins | A |
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| Oh Friend for ever lov'd for ever dear | B |
| What fruitless tears have bathed thy honour'd bier | C |
| What sighs re echo'd to thy parting breath | D |
| Whilst thou wast struggling in the pangs of death | D |
| Could tears retard the tyrant in his course | A |
| Could sighs avert his dart's relentless force | A |
| Could youth and virtue claim a short delay | E |
| Or beauty charm the spectre from his prey | E |
| Thou still hadst liv'd to bless my aching sight | F |
| Thy comrade's honour and thy friend's delight | F |
| If yet thy gentle spirit hover nigh | G |
| The spot where now thy mouldering ashes lie | G |
| Here wilt thou read recorded on my heart | H |
| A grief too deep to trust the sculptor's art | H |
| No marble marks thy couch of lowly sleep | I |
| But living statues there are seen to weep | I |
| Affliction's semblance bends not o'er thy tomb | J |
| Affliction's self deplores thy youthful doom | J |
| What though thy sire lament his failing line | K |
| A father's sorrows cannot equal mine | K |
| Though none like thee his dying hour will cheer | B |
| Yet other offspring soothe his anguish here | C |
| But who with me shall hold thy former place | A |
| Thine image what new friendship can efface | A |
| Ah none a father's tears will cease to flow | L |
| Time will assuage an infant brother's woe | L |
| To all save one is consolation known | M |
| While solitary Friendship sighs alone | M |
George Gordon Byron
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