A Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EEFF GGHI JJKK LLMM NFOO PPQR GGSS TUVV| CLOUDS is under clouds and rain | A |
| For there will not come again | B |
| Two the beloved sire and son | C |
| Whom all gifts were rained upon | D |
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| Kindness is all done alas | E |
| Courtesy and grace must pass | E |
| Beauty wit and charm lie dead | F |
| Love no more may wreathe the head | F |
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| Now the branch that waved so high | G |
| No wind tosses to the sky | G |
| There's no flowering time to come | H |
| No sweet leafage and no bloom | I |
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| Percy golden hearted boy | J |
| In the heyday of his joy | J |
| Left his new made bride and chose | K |
| The steep way that Honour goes | K |
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| Took for his the deathless song | L |
| Of the love that knows no wrong | L |
| Could I love thee dear so true | M |
| Were not Honour more than you | M |
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| Oh forgive dear Lovelace laid | N |
| In this mean Procrustean bed | F |
| Dear I love thee best of all | O |
| When I go at England's call | O |
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| In our magnificent sky aglow | P |
| How shall we this Percy know | P |
| Where he shines among the suns | Q |
| And the planets and the moons | R |
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| Percy died for England why | G |
| Here's a sign to know him by | G |
| There's one dear and fix d star | S |
| There's a youngling never far | S |
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| Percy and his father keep | T |
| The old loved companionship | U |
| And shine downward in one ray | V |
| Where at Clouds they wait for day | V |
Katharine Tynan
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