On The University Carrier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDEFFGGHIJJKKLL| Who sickened in the time of his Vacancy being forbid to go to London by reason of the Plague | A |
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| Here lies old Hobson Death hath broke his girt | B |
| And here alas hath laid him in the dirt | B |
| Or else the ways being foul twenty to one | C |
| He s here stuck in a slough and overthrown | D |
| T was such a shifter that if truth were known | D |
| Death was half glad when he had got him down | E |
| For he had any time this ten years full | F |
| Dodged with him betwixt Cambridge and The Bull | F |
| And surely Death could never have prevailed | G |
| Had not his weekly course of carriage failed | G |
| But lately finding him so long at home | H |
| And thinking now his journey s end was come | I |
| And that he had ta en up his latest Inn | J |
| In the kind office of a Chamberlin | J |
| Showed him his room where he must lodge that night | K |
| Pulled off his boots and took away the light | K |
| If any ask for him it shall be said | L |
| Hobson has supped and s newly gone to bed | L |
John Milton
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