Epitaph On Her Son H. P. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEAFGGHHGGGGII GG| WHat on Earth deserves our trust | A |
| Youth and Beauty both are dust | A |
| Long we gathering are with pain | B |
| What one moment calls again | C |
| Seven years childless marriage past | D |
| A Son a son is born at last | D |
| So exactly lim'd and fair | E |
| Full of good Spirits Meen and Air | E |
| As a long life promised | A |
| Yet in less than six weeks dead | F |
| Too promising too great a mind | G |
| In so small room to be confin'd | G |
| Therefore as fit in Heav'n to dwell | H |
| He quickly broke the Prison shell | H |
| So the subtle Alchimist | G |
| Can't with Hermes Seal resist | G |
| The powerful spirit's subtler flight | G |
| But t'will bid him long good night | G |
| And so the Sun if it arise | I |
| Half so glorious as his Eyes | I |
| Like this Infant takes a shrowd | G |
| Buried in a morning Cloud | G |
Katherine Philips
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