Lament I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCDEEFFAAAAGGHH| Come Heraclitus and Simonides | A |
| Come with your weeping and sad elegies | A |
| Ye griefs and sorrows come from all the lands | A |
| Wherein ye sigh and wail and wring your hands | A |
| Gather ye here within my house today | B |
| And help me mourn my sweet whom in her May | B |
| Ungodly Death hath ta'en to his estate | C |
| Leaving me on a sudden desolate | D |
| 'Tis so a serpent glides on some shy nest | E |
| And of the tiny nightingales possessed | E |
| Doth glut its throat though frenzied with her fear | F |
| The mother bird doth beat and twitter near | F |
| And strike the monster till it turns and gapes | A |
| To swallow her and she but just escapes | A |
| 'Tis vain to weep my friends perchance will say | A |
| Dear God is aught in life not vain then Nay | A |
| Seek to lie soft yet thorns will prickly be | G |
| The life of man is naught but vanity | G |
| Ah which were better then to seek relief | H |
| In tears or sternly strive to conquer grief | H |
Jan Kochanowski
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