The Legacy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIJGK GGLLMMNNOOPPOOGGGGQR SSGGOOPPGGTUVWXYZZIO| My dearest Love when thou and I must part | A |
| And th' icy hand of death shall seize that heart | A |
| Which is all thine within some spacious will | B |
| Ile leave no blanks for Legacies to fill | B |
| Tis my ambition to die one of those | C |
| Who but himself hath nothing to dispose | C |
| And since that is already thine what need | D |
| I to re give it by some newer deed | D |
| Yet take it once again Free circumstance | E |
| Does oft the value of mean things advance | E |
| Who thus repeats what he bequeath'd before | F |
| Proclaims his bounty richer then his store | F |
| But let me not upon my love bestow | G |
| What is not worth the giving I do ow | G |
| Somwhat to dust my bodies pamper'd care | H |
| Hungry corruption and the worm will share | H |
| That mouldring relick which in earth must lie | I |
| Would prove a gift of horrour to thine eie | J |
| With this cast ragge of my mortalitie | G |
| Let all my faults and errours buried be | K |
| And as my sear cloth rots so may kind fate | G |
| Those worst acts of my life incinerate | G |
| He shall in story fill a glorious room | L |
| Whose ashes and whose sins sleep in one Tomb | L |
| If now to my cold hearse thou deign to bring | M |
| Some melting sighs as thy last offering | M |
| My peacefull exequies are crown'd Nor shall | N |
| I ask more honour at my Funerall | N |
| Thou wilt more richly balm me with thy tears | O |
| Then all the Nard fragrant Arabia bears | O |
| And as the Paphian Queen by her griefs show'r | P |
| Brought up her dead Loves Spirit in a flow'r | P |
| So by those precious drops rain'd from thine eies | O |
| Out of my dust O may some vertue rise | O |
| And like thy better Genius thee attend | G |
| Till thou in my dark Period shalt end | G |
| Lastly my constant truth let me commend | G |
| To him thou choosest next to be thy friend | G |
| For witness all things good I would not have | Q |
| Thy Youth and Beauty married to my grave | R |
| 'Twould shew thou didst repent the style of wife | S |
| Should'st thou relapse into a single life | S |
| They with preposterous grief the world delude | G |
| Who mourn for their lost Mates in solitude | G |
| Since Widdowhood more strongly doth enforce | O |
| The much lamented lot of their divorce | O |
| Themselves then of their losses guilty are | P |
| Who may yet will not suffer a repaire | P |
| Those were Barbarian wives that did invent | G |
| Weeping to death at th' Husbands Monument | G |
| But in more civil Rites She doth approve | T |
| Her first who ventures on a second Love | U |
| For else it may be thought if She refrain | V |
| She sped so ill Shee durst not trie again | W |
| Up then my Love and choose some worthier one | X |
| Who may supply my room when I am gone | Y |
| So will the stock of our affection thrive | Z |
| No less in death then were I still alive | Z |
| And in my urne I shall rejoyce that I | I |
| Am both Testatour thus and Legacie | O |
Henry King
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