Lament Xv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFGGHHIIJJKKLL MMNNOOPPJJQQRR| Golden locked Erato and thou sweet lute | A |
| The comfort of the sad and destitute | A |
| Calm thou my sorrow lest I too become | B |
| A marble pillar shedding through the dumb | B |
| But living stone my almost bloody tears | C |
| A monument of grief for coming years | D |
| For when we think of mankind's evil chance | E |
| Does not our private grief gain temperance | F |
| Unhappy mother if 'tis evil hap | G |
| We blame when caught in our own folly's trap | G |
| Where are thy sons and daughters seven each | H |
| The joyful cause of thy too boastful speech | H |
| I see their fourteen stones and thou alas | I |
| Who from thy misery wouldst gladly pass | I |
| To death dost kiss the tombs O wretched one | J |
| Where lies thy fruit so cruelly undone | J |
| Thus blossoms fall where some keen sickle passes | K |
| And so when rain doth level them green grasses | K |
| What hope canst thou yet harbor in thee Why | L |
| Dost thou not drive thy sorrow hence and die | L |
| And thy swift arrows Phoebus what do they | M |
| And thine unerring bow Diana Slay | M |
| Her ye avenging gods if not in rage | N |
| Then out of pity for her desolate age | N |
| A punishment for pride before unknown | O |
| Hath fallen Niobe is turned to stone | O |
| And borne in whirlwind arms o'er seas and lands | P |
| On Sipylus in deathless marble stands | P |
| Yet from her living wounds a crystal fountain | J |
| Of tears flows through the rock and down the mountain | J |
| Whence beast and bird may drink but she in chains | Q |
| Fixed in the path of all the winds remains | Q |
| This tomb holds naught this woman hath no tomb | R |
| To be both grave and body is her doom | R |
Jan Kochanowski
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