Epitaph On The Marchioness Of Winchester Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHIIJKLL MNDDOOLLPPCCQQRRSSAA TTUUVWXYZZUUA2A2B2C2 UULLPPUUZZPPD2D2E2E2 F2F2| This rich marble doth inter | A |
| The honoured wife of Winchester | A |
| A viscount's daughter an earl's heir | B |
| Besides what her virtues fair | B |
| Added to her noble birth | C |
| More than she could own from earth | C |
| Summers three times eight save one | D |
| She had told alas too soon | E |
| After so short time of breath | F |
| To house with darkness and with death | F |
| Yet had the number of her days | G |
| Been as complete as was her praise | G |
| Nature and Fate had had no strife | H |
| In giving limit to her life | H |
| Her high birth and her graces sweet | I |
| Quickly found a lover meet | I |
| The virgin quire for her request | J |
| The god that sits at marriage feast | K |
| He at their invoking came | L |
| But with a scarce well lighted flame | L |
| And in his garland as he stood | M |
| Ye might discern a cypress bud | N |
| Once had the early Matrons run | D |
| To greet her of a lovely son | D |
| And now with second hope she goes | O |
| And calls Lucina to her throes | O |
| But whether by mischance or blame | L |
| Atropos for Lucina came | L |
| And with remorseless cruelty | P |
| Spoiled at once both fruit and tree | P |
| The hapless babe before his birth | C |
| Had burial yet not laid in earth | C |
| And the languished mother's womb | Q |
| Was not long a living tomb | Q |
| So have I seen some tender slip | R |
| Saved with care from Winter's nip | R |
| The pride of her carnation train | S |
| Plucked up by some unheedy swain | S |
| Who only thought to crop the flower | A |
| New shot up from vernal shower | A |
| But the fair blossom hangs the head | T |
| Sideways as on a dying bed | T |
| And those pearls of dew she wears | U |
| Prove to be presaging tears | U |
| Which the sad morn had let fall | V |
| On her hastening funeral | W |
| Gentle Lady may thy grave | X |
| Peace and quiet ever have | Y |
| After this thy travail sore | Z |
| Sweet rest seize thee evermore | Z |
| That to give the world encrease | U |
| Shortened hast thy own life's lease | U |
| Here besides the sorrowing | A2 |
| That thy noble House doth bring | A2 |
| Here be tears of perfect moan | B2 |
| Wept for thee in Helicon | C2 |
| And some flowers and some bays | U |
| For thy hearse to strew the ways | U |
| Sent thee from the banks of Came | L |
| Devoted to thy virtuous name | L |
| Whilst thou bright Saint high sitt'st in glory | P |
| Next her much like to thee in story | P |
| That fair Syrian Shepherdess | U |
| Who after years of barrenness | U |
| The highly favoured Joseph bore | Z |
| To him that served for her before | Z |
| And at her next birth much like thee | P |
| Through pangs fled to felicity | P |
| Far within the bosom bright | D2 |
| Of blazing Majesty and Light | D2 |
| There with thee new welcome Saint | E2 |
| Like fortunes may her soul acquaint | E2 |
| With thee there clad in radiant sheen | F2 |
| No Marchioness but now a Queen | F2 |
John Milton
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