Death And The Dying Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEDEFGFGHHDIJJ KKLLMMNNOPQ RRKKSSTTUVUWWXXYYQQW WWW ZZA2A2B2C2D2D2WWCCJJ| A | |
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| Death never taketh by surprise | B |
| The well prepared to wit the wise | B |
| They knowing of themselves the time | C |
| To meditate the final change of clime | C |
| That time alas embraces all | D |
| Which into hours and minutes we divide | E |
| There is no part however small | D |
| That from this tribute one can hide | E |
| The very moment oft which bids | F |
| The heirs of empire see the light | G |
| Is that which shuts their fring d lids | F |
| In everlasting night | G |
| Defend yourself by rank and wealth | H |
| Plead beauty virtue youth and health | H |
| Unblushing Death will ravish all | D |
| The world itself shall pass beneath his pall | I |
| No truth is better known but truth to say | J |
| No truth is oftener thrown away | J |
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| A man well in his second century | K |
| Complain'd that Death had call'd him suddenly | K |
| Had left no time his plans to fill | L |
| To balance books or make his will | L |
| 'O Death ' said he 'd' ye call it fair | M |
| Without a warning to prepare | M |
| To take a man on lifted leg | N |
| O wait a little while I beg | N |
| My wife cannot be left alone | O |
| I must set out my nephew's son | P |
| And let me build my house a wing | Q |
| Before you strike O cruel king ' | - |
| 'Old man ' said Death 'one thing is sure | R |
| My visit here's not premature | R |
| Hast thou not lived a century | K |
| Darest thou engage to find for me | K |
| In Paris' walls two older men | S |
| Has France among her millions ten | S |
| Thou say'st I should have sent thee word | T |
| Thy lamp to trim thy loins to gird | T |
| And then my coming had been meet | U |
| Thy will engross'd | V |
| Thy house complete | U |
| Did not thy feelings notify | W |
| Did not they tell thee thou must die | W |
| Thy taste and hearing are no more | X |
| Thy sight itself is gone before | X |
| For thee the sun superfluous shines | Y |
| And all the wealth of Indian mines | Y |
| Thy mates I've shown thee dead or dying | Q |
| What's this indeed but notifying | Q |
| Come on old man without reply | W |
| For to the great and common weal | W |
| It doth but little signify | W |
| Whether thy will shall ever feel | W |
| The impress of thy hand and seal ' | - |
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| And Death had reason ghastly sage | Z |
| For surely man at such an age | Z |
| Should part from life as from a feast | A2 |
| Returning decent thanks at least | A2 |
| To Him who spread the various cheer | B2 |
| And unrepining take his bier | C2 |
| For shun it long no creature can | D2 |
| Repinest thou grey headed man | D2 |
| See younger mortals rushing by | W |
| To meet their death without a sigh | W |
| Death full of triumph and of fame | C |
| But in its terrors still the same | C |
| But ah my words are thrown away | J |
| Those most like Death most dread his sway | J |
Jean De La Fontaine
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