On The Death Of The Vice-chancellor, A Physician.1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGH IIJJ KKLL MNOO PPQQ RRQQ SSTT RRUU VVWW XXRR| Learn ye nations of the earth | A |
| The condition of your birth | A |
| Now be taught your feeble state | B |
| Know that all must yield to Fate | B |
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| If the mournful Rover Death | C |
| Say but once resign your breath | C |
| Vainly of escape you dream | D |
| You must pass the Stygian stream | D |
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| Could the stoutest overcome | E |
| Death's assault and baffle Doom | F |
| Hercules had both withstood | G |
| Undiseas'd by Nessus' blood | H |
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| Ne'er had Hector press'd the plain | I |
| By a trick of Pallas slain | I |
| Nor the Chief to Jove allied | J |
| By Achilles' phantom died | J |
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| Could enchantments life prolong | K |
| Circe saved by magic song | K |
| Still had liv'd and equal skill | L |
| Had preserv'd Medea still | L |
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| Dwelt in herbs and drugs a pow'r | M |
| To avert Man's destin'd hour | N |
| Learn'd Machaon should have known | O |
| Doubtless to avert his own | O |
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| Chiron had survived the smart | P |
| Of the Hydra tainted dart | P |
| And Jove's bolt had been with ease | Q |
| Foil'd by Asclepiades | Q |
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| Thou too Sage of whom forlorn | R |
| Helicon and Cirrha mourn | R |
| Still had'st filled thy princely place | Q |
| Regent of the gowned race | Q |
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| Had'st advanc'd to higher fame | S |
| Still thy much ennobled name | S |
| Nor in Charon's skiff explored | T |
| The Tartarean gulph abhorr'd | T |
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| But resentful Proserpine | R |
| Jealous of thy skill divine | R |
| Snapping short thy vital thread | U |
| Thee too number'd with the Dead | U |
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| Wise and good untroubled be | V |
| The green turf that covers thee | V |
| Thence in gay profusion grow | W |
| All the sweetest flow'rs that blow | W |
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| Pluto's Consort bid thee rest | X |
| Oeacus pronounce thee blest | X |
| To her home thy shade consign | R |
| Make Elysium ever thine | R |
John Milton
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