A Phylactery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB DBDDB EBEEB FBFFB GBHIB| Wise men I hold those rakes of old | A |
| Who as we read in antique story | B |
| When lyres were struck and wine was poured | C |
| Set the white Death's Head on the board | C |
| Memento mori | B |
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| Love well love truly and love fast | D |
| True love evades the dilatory | B |
| Life's bloom flares like a meteor past | D |
| A joy so dazzling cannot last | D |
| Memento mori | B |
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| Stop not to pluck the leaves of bay | E |
| That greenly deck the path of glory | B |
| The wreath will wither if you stay | E |
| So pass along your earnest way | E |
| Memento mori | B |
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| Hear but not heed though wild and shrill | F |
| The cries of faction transitory | B |
| Cleave to your good eschew your ill | F |
| A Hundred Years and all is still | F |
| Memento mori | B |
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| When Old Age comes with muffled drums | G |
| That beat to sleep our tired life's story | B |
| On thoughts of dying Rest is good | H |
| Like old snakes coiled i' the sun we brood | I |
| Memento mori | B |
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