The Shrouding Of The Duchess Of Malfi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGGHH IIJJ| Hark Now everything is still | A |
| The screech owl and the whistler shrill | A |
| Call upon our dame aloud | B |
| And bid her quickly don her shroud | B |
| - | |
| Much you had of land and rent | C |
| Your length in clay 's now competent | D |
| A long war disturb'd your mind | E |
| Here your perfect peace is sign'd | E |
| - | |
| Of what is 't fools make such vain keeping | F |
| Sin their conception their birth weeping | F |
| Their life a general mist of error | G |
| Their death a hideous storm of terror | G |
| Strew your hair with powders sweet | H |
| Don clean linen bathe your feet | H |
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| And the foul fiend more to check | I |
| A crucifix let bless your neck | I |
| 'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day | J |
| End your groan and come away | J |
John Webster
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