To A Lady On The Death Of Her Husband Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLMMNNOOPPQROO| Grim monarch see depriv'd of vital breath | A |
| A young physician in the dust of death | A |
| Dost thou go on incessant to destroy | B |
| Our griefs to double and lay waste our joy | B |
| Enough thou never yet wast known to say | C |
| Though millions die the vassals of thy sway | C |
| Nor youth nor science not the ties of love | D |
| Nor ought on earth thy flinty heart can move | E |
| The friend the spouse from his dire dart to save | F |
| In vain we ask the sovereign of the grave | F |
| Fair mourner there see thy lov'd Leonard laid | G |
| And o'er him spread the deep impervious shade | G |
| Clos'd are his eyes and heavy fetters keep | H |
| His senses bound in never waking sleep | H |
| Till time shall cease till many a starry world | I |
| Shall fall from heav'n in dire confusion hurl'd | I |
| Till nature in her final wreck shall lie | J |
| And her last groan shall rend the azure sky | J |
| Not not till then his active soul shall claim | K |
| His body a divine immortal frame | K |
| But see the softly stealing tears apace | L |
| Pursue each other down the mourner's face | L |
| But cease thy tears bid ev'ry sigh depart | M |
| And cast the load of anguish from thine heart | M |
| From the cold shell of his great soul arise | N |
| And look beyond thou native of the skies | N |
| There fix thy view where fleeter than the wind | O |
| Thy Leonard mounts and leaves the earth behind | O |
| Thyself prepare to pass the vale of night | P |
| To join for ever on the hills of light | P |
| To thine embrace this joyful spirit moves | Q |
| To thee the partner of his earthly loves | R |
| He welcomes thee to pleasures more refin'd | O |
| And better suited to th' immortal mind | O |
Phillis Wheatley
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