Elegy:the End Of Funeral Elegies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDE FGHHIIDDJJ| MADAM | A |
| That I might make your cabinet my tomb | B |
| And for my fame which I love next my soul | C |
| Next to my soul provide the happiest room | B |
| Admit to that place this last funeral scroll | C |
| Others by wills give legacies but I | D |
| Dying of you do beg a legacy | E |
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| My fortune and my will this custom break | F |
| When we are senseless grown to make stones speak | G |
| Though no stone tell thee what I was yet thou | H |
| In my grave's inside seest what thou art now | H |
| Yet thou 'rt not yet so good till death us lay | I |
| To ripe and mellow there we're stubborn clay | I |
| Parents make us earth and souls dignify | D |
| Us to be glass here to grow gold we lie | D |
| Whilst in our souls sin bred and pamper'd is | J |
| Our souls become worm eaten carcases | J |
John Donne
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