Epitaph On Sir Palmes Fairbone's Tomb In Westminster Abbey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCCDDEAFFGHHHIIIJJ KLMN| Sacred To The Immortal Memory Of Sir Palmes Fairbone Knight Governor Of Tangier In Execution Of Which Command He Was Mortally Wounded By A Shot From The Moors Then Besieging The Town In The Forty Sixth Year Of His Age October | A |
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| Ye sacred relics which your marble keep | B |
| Here undisturb'd by wars in quiet sleep | B |
| Discharge the trust which when it was below | C |
| Pairbone's undaunted soul did undergo | C |
| And be the town's Palladium from the foe | C |
| Alive and dead these walls he will defend | D |
| Great actions great examples must attend | D |
| The Candian siege his early valour knew | E |
| Where Turkish blood did his young hands imbrue | A |
| From thence returning with deserved applause | F |
| Against the Moors his well flesh'd sword he draws | F |
| The same the courage and the same the cause | G |
| His youth and age his life and death combine | H |
| As in some great and regular design | H |
| All of a piece throughout and all divine | H |
| Still nearer heaven his virtues shone more bright | I |
| Like rising flames expanding in their height | I |
| The martyr's glory crown'd the soldier's fight | I |
| More bravely British general never fell | J |
| Nor general's death was e'er revenged so well | J |
| Which his pleased eyes beheld before their close | K |
| Follow'd by thousand victims of his foes | L |
| To his lamented loss for time to come | M |
| His pious widow consecrates this tomb | N |
John Dryden
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