An Elegy Upon S. W. R. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFFEGGEEGG HHIIJJFF| I will not weep for 'twere as great a sin | A |
| To shed a tear for thee as to have bin | A |
| An Actor in thy death Thy life and age | B |
| Was but a various Scene on fortunes Stage | B |
| With whom thou tugg'st strov'st ev'n out of breath | C |
| In thy long toil nere master'd till thy death | C |
| And then despight of trains and cruell wit | D |
| Thou did'st at once subdue malice and it | D |
| I dare not then so blast thy memory | E |
| As say I do lament or pity thee | E |
| Were I to choose a subject to bestow | F |
| My pity on he should be one as low | F |
| In spirit as desert That durst not dy | F |
| But rather were content by slavery | E |
| To purchase life or I would pity those | G |
| Thy most industrious and friendly foes | G |
| Who when they thought to make thee scandals story | E |
| Lent thee a swifter flight to Heav'n and glory | E |
| That thought by cutting off some wither'd dayes | G |
| Which thou could'st spare them to eclipse thy praise | G |
| Yet gave it brighter foil made thy ag'd fame | H |
| Appear more white and fair then foul their shame | H |
| And did promote an Execution | I |
| Which but for them Nature and Age had done | I |
| Such worthless things as these were onely born | J |
| To live on Pities almes too mean for scorn | J |
| Thou dy'dst an envious wonder whose high fate | F |
| The world must still admire scarce imitate | F |
Henry King
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