Lament Xii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGFFHHIIJJ FFKKLLJJ| I think no father under any sky | A |
| More fondly loved a daughter than did I | A |
| And scarcely ever has a child been born | B |
| Whose loss her parents could more justly mourn | B |
| Unspoiled and neat obedient at all times | C |
| She seemed already versed in songs and rhymes | C |
| And with a highborn courtesy and art | D |
| Though but a babe she played a maiden's part | D |
| Discreet and modest sociable and free | E |
| From jealous habits docile mannerly | F |
| She never thought to taste her morning fare | G |
| Until she should have said her morning prayer | G |
| She never went to sleep at night until | F |
| She had prayed God to save us all from ill | F |
| She used to run to meet her father when | H |
| He came from any journey home again | H |
| She loved to work and to anticipate | I |
| The servants of the house ere they could wait | I |
| Upon her parents This she had begun | J |
| When thirty months their little course had run | J |
| So many virtues and such active zeal | F |
| Her youth could not sustain she fell from weal | F |
| Ere harvest Little ear of wheat thy prime | K |
| Was distant 'tis before thy proper time | K |
| I sow thee once again in the sad earth | L |
| Knowing I bury with thee hope and mirth | L |
| For thou wilt not spring up when blossoms quicken | J |
| But leave mine eyes forever sorrow stricken | J |
Jan Kochanowski
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