An Epitaph On The Admirable Dramatic Poet W. Shakespeare Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFFFGG| What needs my Shakespeare for his honored bones | A |
| The labor of an age in piled stones | A |
| Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid | B |
| Under a star ypointing pyramid | B |
| Dear son of Memory great heir of Fame | C |
| What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name | C |
| Thou in our wonder and astonishment | D |
| Hast built thy self a livelong monument | D |
| For whilst to th' shame of slow endeavoring art | E |
| Thy easy numbers flow and that each heart | E |
| Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued book | F |
| Those Delphic lines with deep impression took | F |
| Then thou our fancy of itself bereaving | F |
| Dost make us marble with too much conceiving | F |
| And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie | G |
| That kings for such a tomb would wish to die | G |
John Milton
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