On One Who Died Discovering Her Kindness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGH IIJJKL| Some vex their souls with jealous pain | A |
| While others sigh for cold disdain | A |
| Love's various slaves we daily see | B |
| Yet happy all compared with me | B |
| - | |
| Of all mankind I loved the best | C |
| A nymph so far above the rest | C |
| That we outshined the Blest above | D |
| In beauty she as I in love | D |
| - | |
| And therefore They who could not bear | E |
| To be outdone by mortals here | F |
| Among themselves have placed her now | G |
| And left me wretched here below | H |
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| All other fate I could have borne | I |
| And even endured her very scorn | I |
| But oh thus all at once to find | J |
| That dread account both dead and kind | J |
| What heart can hold If yet I live | K |
| 'Tis but to show how much I grieve | L |
John Sheffield
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