Lament Iv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGBBHHII| Thou hast constrained mine eyes unholy Death | A |
| To watch my dear child breathe her dying breath | A |
| To watch thee shake the fruit unripe and clinging | B |
| While fear and grief her parents' hearts were wringing | B |
| Ah never never could my well loved child | C |
| Have died and left her father reconciled | C |
| Never but with a heart like heavy lead | D |
| Could I have watched her go abandoned | E |
| And yet at no time could her death have brought | F |
| More cruel ache than now nor bitterer thought | F |
| For had God granted to her ample days | G |
| I might have walked with her down flowered ways | G |
| And left this life at last content descending | B |
| To realms of dark Persephone the all ending | B |
| Without such grievous sorrow in my heart | H |
| Of which earth holdeth not the counterpart | H |
| I marvel not that Niobe alone | I |
| Amid her dear dead children turned to stone | I |
Jan Kochanowski
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