Thou That Know'st For Whom I Mourn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEGHIJIKLKLMNMN OPOPQRQRSTSURVRVWXWX UAUAYVYVZA2ZA2B2C2C2 C2C2C2C2C2ZC2D2C2| THOU that know'st for whom I mourn | A |
| And why these tears appear | B |
| That keep'st account till he return | C |
| Of all his dust left here | D |
| As easily Thou might'st prevent | E |
| As now produce these tears | F |
| And add unto that day he went | E |
| A fair supply of years | G |
| But 'twas my sin that forc'd Thy hand | H |
| To cull this primrose out | I |
| That by Thy early choice forewarn'd | J |
| My soul might look about | I |
| O what a vanity is man | K |
| How like the eye's quick wink | L |
| His cottage fails whose narrow span | K |
| Begins even at the brink | L |
| Nine months thy hands are fashioning us | M |
| And many years alas | N |
| Ere we can lisp or ought discuss | M |
| Concerning Thee must pass | N |
| Yet have I known Thy slightest things | O |
| A feather or a shell | P |
| A stick or rod which some chance brings | O |
| The best of us excel | P |
| Yea I have known these shreds outlast | Q |
| A fair compacted frame | R |
| And for one twenty we have past | Q |
| Almost outlive our name | R |
| Thus hast Thou plac'd in man's outside | S |
| Death to the common eye | T |
| That heaven within him might abide | S |
| And close eternity | U |
| Hence youth and folly man's first shame | R |
| Are put unto the slaughter | V |
| And serious thoughts begin to tame | R |
| The wise man's madness laughter | V |
| Dull wretched worms that would not keep | W |
| Within our first fair bed | X |
| But out of Paradise must creep | W |
| For ev'ry foot to tread | X |
| Yet had our pilgrimage been free | U |
| And smooth without a thorn | A |
| Pleasures had foil'd eternity | U |
| And tares had chok'd the corn | A |
| Thus by the cross salvation runs | Y |
| Affliction is a mother | V |
| Whose painful throes yield many sons | Y |
| Each fairer than the other | V |
| A silent tear can pierce Thy throne | Z |
| When loud joys want a wing | A2 |
| And sweeter airs stream from a groan | Z |
| Than any arted string | A2 |
| Thus Lord I see my gain is great | B2 |
| My loss but little to it | C2 |
| Yet something more I must entreat | C2 |
| And only Thou canst do it | C2 |
| O let me like him know my end | C2 |
| And be as glad to find it | C2 |
| And whatsoe'er Thou shalt commend | C2 |
| Still let Thy servant mind it | C2 |
| Then make my soul white as his own | Z |
| My faith as pure and steady | C2 |
| And deck me Lord with the same crown | D2 |
| Thou hast crown'd him already | C2 |
Henry Vaughan
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