Epitaph On General Gorges,[1] And Lady Meath[2] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBC DDE FFF GGG HHH IIA| Under this stone lies Dick and Dolly | A |
| Doll dying first Dick grew melancholy | A |
| For Dick without Doll thought living a folly | A |
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| Dick lost in Doll a wife tender and dear | B |
| But Dick lost by Doll twelve hundred a year | B |
| A loss that Dick thought no mortal could bear | C |
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| Dick sigh'd for his Doll and his mournful arms cross'd | D |
| Thought much of his Doll and the jointure he lost | D |
| The first vex'd him much the other vex'd most | E |
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| Thus loaded with grief Dick sigh'd and he cried | F |
| To live without both full three days he tried | F |
| But liked neither loss and so quietly died | F |
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| Dick left a pattern few will copy after | G |
| Then reader pray shed some tears of salt water | G |
| For so sad a tale is no subject of laughter | G |
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| Meath smiles for the jointure though gotten so late | H |
| The son laughs that got the hard gotten estate | H |
| And Cuffe grins for getting the Alicant plate | H |
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| Here quiet they lie in hopes to rise one day | I |
| Both solemnly put in this hole on a Sunday | I |
| And here rest sic transit gloria mundi | A |
Jonathan Swift
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