The Court Of Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEF GGHH IIJJ KK LL MMNN KKOOFEJJPPQQRS| Once on a time in solemn state | A |
| Death in his pomp of terror sate | A |
| Attendant on his gloomy reign | B |
| Sadness and Madness Woe and Pain | B |
| His vassal train With hollow tone | C |
| The tyrant muttered from his throne | C |
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| We choose a minister to night | D |
| Let him who wills prefer his right | D |
| And unto the most worthy hand | E |
| We will commit the ebon wand | F |
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| Fever stood forth And I appeal | G |
| To weekly bills to show my zeal | G |
| Repelled repulsed I persevere | H |
| Often quotidian through a year | H |
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| Gout next appeared to urge his claim | I |
| For the racked joints of tortured frame | I |
| He too besieged the man oppressed | J |
| Nor would depart although suppressed | J |
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| Then Rheumatics stept forth and said | K |
| I plague them as they lie in bed | K |
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| Whilst Palsy said I make them stumble | L |
| When they get up I make them tumble | L |
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| Then quick Consumption slow Decline | M |
| Put in their claims on counts malign | M |
| And Plague preferred his rapid power | N |
| To weed a nation in an hour | N |
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| At the first pause the monarch said | K |
| Merit of modesty was bred | K |
| Does no physician strive with these | O |
| Physicians are content with fees | O |
| I say give Drunkenness the wand | F |
| There give it to his drunken hand | E |
| For wary men as foes detest | J |
| You Rheumatics who break their rest | J |
| Fever and Gout who here contend | P |
| But Drunkenness they think their friend | P |
| Invite him to their feasts he shares | Q |
| Alike their merriments and cares | Q |
| He for another magnum calls | R |
| At weddings births and funerals | S |
John Gay
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