In Sickness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCCCCCDDEEFFGHIIJJKK CCLLMMNN| WRITTEN IN OCTOBER | A |
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| Soon after the author's coming to live in Ireland upon the Queen's death Swift | B |
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| 'Tis true then why should I repine | C |
| To see my life so fast decline | C |
| But why obscurely here alone | C |
| Where I am neither loved nor known | C |
| My state of health none care to learn | C |
| My life is here no soul's concern | C |
| And those with whom I now converse | D |
| Without a tear will tend my hearse | D |
| Removed from kind Arbuthnot's aid | E |
| Who knows his art but not his trade | E |
| Preferring his regard for me | F |
| Before his credit or his fee | F |
| Some formal visits looks and words | G |
| What mere humanity affords | H |
| I meet perhaps from three or four | I |
| From whom I once expected more | I |
| Which those who tend the sick for pay | J |
| Can act as decently as they | J |
| But no obliging tender friend | K |
| To help at my approaching end | K |
| My life is now a burthen grown | C |
| To others ere it be my own | C |
| Ye formal weepers for the sick | L |
| In your last offices be quick | L |
| And spare my absent friends the grief | M |
| To hear yet give me no relief | M |
| Expired to day entomb'd to morrow | N |
| When known will save a double sorrow | N |
Jonathan Swift
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