Another On The Same Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDCCEEFFCCCCGG CCHHCCIICCJKLL| Here lieth one who did most truly prove | A |
| That he could never die while he could move | A |
| So hung his destiny never to rot | B |
| While he might still jogg on and keep his trot | B |
| Made of sphear metal never to decay | C |
| Untill his revolution was at stay | C |
| Time numbers motion yet without a crime | D |
| 'Gainst old truth motion number'd out his time | D |
| And like an Engin mov'd with wheel and waight | C |
| His principles being ceast he ended strait | C |
| Rest that gives all men life gave him his death | E |
| And too much breathing put him out of breath | E |
| Nor were it contradiction to affirm | F |
| Too long vacation hastned on his term | F |
| Meerly to drive the time away he sickn'd | C |
| Fainted and died nor would with Ale be quickn'd | C |
| Nay quoth he on his swooning bed out stretch'd | C |
| If I may not carry sure Ile ne're be fetch'd | C |
| But vow though the cross Doctors all stood hearers | G |
| For one Carrier put down to make six bearers | G |
| Ease was his chief disease and to judge right | C |
| He di'd for heavines that his Cart went light | C |
| His leasure told him that his time was com | H |
| And lack of load made his life burdensom | H |
| That even to his last breath ther be that say't | C |
| As he were prest to death he cry'd more waight | C |
| But had his doings lasted as they were | I |
| He had bin an immortall Carrier | I |
| Obedient to the Moon he spent his date | C |
| In cours reciprocal and had his fate | C |
| Linkt to the mutual flowing of the Seas | J |
| Yet strange to think his wain was his increase | K |
| His Letters are deliver'd all and gon | L |
| Onely remains this superscription | L |
John Milton
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