Lament Xvi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF AAGG FFDD HHII FFJJ KKDD LLFF FFFF FFAA| Misfortune hath constrained me | A |
| To leave the lute and poetry | A |
| Nor can I from their easing borrow | B |
| Sleep for my sorrow | B |
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| Do I see true or hath a dream | C |
| Flown forth from ivory gates to gleam | C |
| In phantom gold before forsaking | D |
| Its poor cheat waking | D |
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| Oh mad mistaken humankind | E |
| 'Tis easy triumph for the mind | E |
| While yet no ill adventure strikes us | F |
| And naught mislikes us | F |
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| In plenty we praise poverty | A |
| 'Mid pleasures we hold grief to be | A |
| And even death ere it shall stifle | G |
| Our breath a trifle | G |
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| But when the grudging spinner scants | F |
| Her thread and fate no surcease grants | F |
| From grief most deep and need most wearing | D |
| Less calm our bearing | D |
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| Ah Tully thou didst flee from Rome | H |
| With weeping who didst say his home | H |
| The wise man found in any station | I |
| In any nation | I |
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| And why dost mourn thy daughter so | F |
| When thou hast said the only woe | F |
| That man need dread is base dishonor | J |
| Why sorrow on her | J |
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| Death thou hast said can terrify | K |
| The godless man alone Then why | K |
| So loth the pay for boldness giving | D |
| To leave off living | D |
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| Thy words that have persuaded men | L |
| Persuade not thee angelic pen | L |
| Disaster findeth thy defenses | F |
| Like mine pretenses | F |
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| Soft stone is man he takes the lines | F |
| That Fortune's cutting tool designs | F |
| To press the wounds wherewith she graves us | F |
| Racks us or saves us | F |
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| Time father of forgetfulness | F |
| So longed for now in my distress | F |
| Since wisdom nor the saints can steel me | A |
| Oh do thou heal me | A |
Jan Kochanowski
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