The Dirge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFCCGGHHII JKLLMMNNOOOOCCPP| VVhat is th' Existence of Mans life | A |
| But open war or slumber'd strife | A |
| Where sickness to his sense presents | B |
| The combat of the Elements | B |
| And never feels a perfect Peace | C |
| Till deaths cold hand signs his release | C |
| It is a storm where the hot blood | D |
| Out vies in rage the boyling flood | D |
| And each loud Passion of the mind | E |
| Is like a furious gust of wind | E |
| Which beats his Bark with many a Wave | F |
| Till he casts Anchor in the Grave | F |
| It is a flower which buds and growes | C |
| And withers as the leaves disclose | C |
| Whose spring and fall faint seasons keep | G |
| Like fits of waking before sleep | G |
| Then shrinks into that fatal mold | H |
| Where its first being was enroll'd | H |
| It is a dream whose seeming truth | I |
| Is moraliz'd in age and youth | I |
| Where all the comforts he can share | J |
| As wandring as his fancies are | K |
| Till in a mist of dark decay | L |
| The dreamer vanish quite away | L |
| It is a Diall which points out | M |
| The Sun set as it moves about | M |
| And shadowes out in lines of night | N |
| The subtile stages of times flight | N |
| Till all obscuring earth hath laid | O |
| The body in perpetual shade | O |
| It is a weary enterlude | O |
| Which doth short joyes long woes include | O |
| The World the Stage the Prologue tears | C |
| The Acts vain hope and vary'd fears | C |
| The Scene shuts up with loss of breath | P |
| And leaves no Epilogue but Death | P |
Henry King
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