Of The Death Of The Right Hon. *** Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DEDE EFEF GBGB HDHD| Ye Muses pour the pitying tear | A |
| For Pollio snatch'd away | B |
| O had he liv'd another year | C |
| 'He had not died to day' | D |
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| O were he born to bless mankind | D |
| In virtuous times of yore | E |
| Heroes themselves had fallen behind | D |
| 'Whene'er he went before' | E |
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| How sad the groves and plains appear | E |
| And sympathetic sheep | F |
| Even pitying hills would drop a tear | E |
| 'If hills could learn to weep' | F |
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| His bounty in exalted strain | G |
| Each bard might well display | B |
| Since none implor'd relief in vain | G |
| 'That went reliev'd away' | B |
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| And hark I hear the tuneful throng | H |
| His obsequies forbid | D |
| He still shall live shall live as long | H |
| 'As ever dead man did' | D |
Oliver Goldsmith
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