Lament Vi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEEEFFGGHIJJ KK| Dear little Slavic Sappho we had thought | A |
| Hearing thy songs so sweetly deftly wrought | A |
| That thou shouldst have an heritage one day | B |
| Beyond thy father's lands his lute to play | B |
| For not an hour of daylight's joyous round | C |
| But thou didst fill it full of lovely sound | C |
| Just as the nightingale doth scatter pleasure | D |
| Upon the dark in glad unstinted measure | D |
| Then Death came stalking near thee timid thing | E |
| And thou in sudden terror tookest wing | E |
| Ah that delight it was not overlong | E |
| And I pay dear with sorrow for brief song | E |
| Thou still wert singing when thou cam'st to die | F |
| Kissing thy mother thus thou saidst good bye | F |
| My mother I shall serve thee now no more | G |
| Nor sit about thy table's charming store | G |
| I must lay down my keys to go from here | H |
| To leave the mansion of my parents dear | I |
| This and what sorrow now will let me tell | J |
| No longer were my darling's last farewell | J |
| Ah strong her mother's heart to feel the pain | K |
| Of those last words and not to burst in twain | K |
Jan Kochanowski
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