Lament Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEEEFFGGHHII HHJJKKLLGG| If I had ever thought to write in praise | A |
| Of little children and their simple ways | A |
| Far rather had I fashioned cradle verse | B |
| To rock to slumber or the songs a nurse | B |
| Might croon above the baby on her breast | C |
| Setting her charge's short lived woes at rest | C |
| For much more useful are such trifling tasks | D |
| Than that which sad misfortune this day asks | D |
| To weep o'er thy deaf grave dear maiden mine | E |
| And wail the harshness of grim Proserpine | E |
| But now I have no choice of subject then | E |
| I shunned a theme scarce fitting riper men | E |
| And now disaster drives me on by force | F |
| To songs unheeded by the great concourse | F |
| Of mortals Verses that I would not sing | G |
| The living to the dead I needs must bring | G |
| Yet though I dry the marrow from my bones | H |
| Weeping another's death my grief atones | H |
| No whit All forms of human doom | I |
| Arouse but transient thoughts of joy or gloom | I |
| O law unjust O grimmest of all maids | H |
| Inexorable princess of the shades | H |
| For Ursula thou hadst but tasted time | J |
| And art departed long before thy prime | J |
| Thou hardly knewest that the sun was bright | K |
| Ere thou didst vanish to the halls of night | K |
| I would thou hadst not lived that little breath | L |
| What didst thou know but only birth then death | L |
| And all the joy a loving child should bring | G |
| Her parents is become their bitterest sting | G |
Jan Kochanowski
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