Epitaph On A Beloved Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK ABLLMMNN| Oh Friend for ever loved for ever dear | A |
| What fruitless tears have bathed thy honour'd bier | B |
| What sighs re'echo'd to thy parting breath | C |
| Wilst thou wast struggling in the pangs of death | C |
| Could tears retard the tyrant in his course | D |
| Could sighs avert his dart's relentless force | D |
| Could youth and virtue claim a short delay | E |
| Or beauty charm the spectre from his prey | E |
| Thou still hadst lived to bless my aching sight | F |
| Thy comrade's honour and thy friends 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 bands 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 | A |
| Yet other offspring soothe his anguish here | B |
| But who with me shall hold thy former place | L |
| Thine image what new friendship can efface | L |
| Ah none a father's tears will cease to flow | M |
| Time will assuage an infant brother's woe | M |
| To all save one is consolation known | N |
| While solitary friendship sighs alone | N |
George Gordon Byron
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