Athe Anniverse. An Elegy. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFGHHIIJKEELLMM NNOPQQEERS| So soon grown old hast thou been six years dead | A |
| Poor earth once by my Love inhabited | B |
| And must I live to calculate the time | C |
| To which thy blooming youth could never climbe | C |
| But fell in the ascent yet have not I | D |
| Studi'd enough thy losses history | E |
| How happy were mankind if Death's strict lawes | F |
| Consum'd our lamentations like the cause | G |
| Or that our grief turning to dust might end | H |
| With the dissolved body of a friend | H |
| But sacred Heaven O how just thou art | I |
| In stamping deaths impression on that heart | I |
| Which through thy favours would grow insolent | J |
| Were it not physick't by sharp discontent | K |
| If then it stand resolv'd in thy decree | E |
| That still I must doom'd to a Desart be | E |
| Sprung out of my lone thoughts which know no path | L |
| But what my own misfortune beaten hath | L |
| If thou wilt bind me living to a coarse | M |
| And I must slowly waste I then of force | M |
| Stoop to thy great appointment and obey | N |
| That will which nought avail me to gainsay | N |
| For whil'st in sorrowes Maze I wander on | O |
| I do but follow lifes vocation | P |
| Sure we were made to grieve at our first birth | Q |
| With cries we took possession of the earth | Q |
| And though the lucky man reputed be | E |
| Fortunes adopted son yet onely he | E |
| Is Natures true born child who summes his years | R |
| Like me with no Arithmetick but tears | S |
Henry King
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