In Memory Of F.p. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCCAABBDDAAAAEE AAAAAAFFBBGGAGGG| If I could ever write a lasting verse | A |
| It should be laid deare Sainte upon thy herse | A |
| But Sorrow is no muse and doth confesse | A |
| That it least can what most it would expresse | A |
| Yet that I may some bounds to griefe allow | B |
| I'le try if I can weepe in numbers now | B |
| Ah beauteous blossom too untimely dead | C |
| Whither ah whither is thy sweetness fled | C |
| Where are the charmes that allwayes did arise | A |
| From the prevailing languadge sic of thine eyes | A |
| Where is thy modest aire and lovely meen | B |
| And all the wonders that in these were seen | B |
| Alas in vaine In vaine on three I rave | D |
| There is no pitty in the stupid grave | D |
| Never ah never let glad parents guesse | A |
| At one remove of future happinesse | A |
| But reckon children 'mong those passing joys | A |
| Which one hour gives and the next hour destroyes | A |
| Alas we were secure of our content | E |
| But find too late that it was onely lent | E |
| To be a mirrour wherein we might see | A |
| How fraile we are how innocent should be | A |
| But if to thy blest soule my griefe appeares | A |
| Forgive and pitty these injurious teares | A |
| Impute them to affection's sad excesse | A |
| Which will not yeild to nature's tendernesse | A |
| Since 'twas through dearest tyes and highest trust | F |
| Continu'd from thy cradle to thy dust | F |
| And so rewarded and confirm'd by thine | B |
| wo is me I thought thee too much mine | B |
| But I'le resigne and follow thee as fast | G |
| As my unhappy minutes will make hast | G |
| Till when the fresh remembrances of thee | A |
| Shall be my emblem of mortalitie | G |
| For such a loss as thine bright soule is not | G |
| Ever to be repaired or forgot | G |
Katherine Philips
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