Vanitas Vanitatum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH| All the flowers of the spring | A |
| Meet to perfume our burying | A |
| These have but their growing prime | B |
| And man does flourish but his time | B |
| Survey our progress from our birth | C |
| We are set we grow we turn to earth | C |
| Courts adieu and all delights | D |
| All bewitching appetites | D |
| Sweetest breath and clearest eye | E |
| Like perfumes go out and die | E |
| And consequently this is done | F |
| As shadows wait upon the sun | F |
| Vain the ambition of kings | G |
| Who seek by trophies and dead things | G |
| To leave a living name behind | H |
| And weave but nets to catch the wind | H |
John Webster
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