Orinda Upon Little Hector Philips Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEB GHGI JKLK| Twice forty months of Wedlock did I stay | A |
| Then had my vows crown'd with a Lovely boy | B |
| And yet in forty days he dropt away | A |
| O swift Visissitude of humane joy | B |
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| I did but see him and he dis appear'd | C |
| I did but pluck the Rose bud and it fell | D |
| A sorrow unforeseen and scarcely fear'd | C |
| For ill can mortals their afflictions spell | D |
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| And now sweet Babe what can my trembling heart | E |
| Suggest to right my doleful fate or thee | F |
| Tears are my Muse and sorrow all my Art | E |
| So piercing groans must be thy Elogy | B |
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| Thus whilst no eye is witness of my mone | G |
| I grieve thy loss Ah boy too dear to live | H |
| And let the unconcerned World alone | G |
| Who neither will nor can refreshment give | I |
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| An Off'ring too for thy sad Tomb I have | J |
| Too just a tribute to thy early Herse | K |
| Receive these gasping numbers to thy grave | L |
| The last of thy unhappy Mothers Verse | K |
Katherine Philips
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