An Epitaph Upon Husband And Wife, Who Died And Were Buried Together Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGGGHH| To these whom death again did wed | A |
| This grave 's the second marriage bed | A |
| For though the hand of Fate could force | B |
| 'Twixt soul and body a divorce | B |
| It could not sever man and wife | C |
| Because they both lived but one life | C |
| Peace good reader do not weep | D |
| Peace the lovers are asleep | D |
| They sweet turtles folded lie | E |
| In the last knot that love could tie | E |
| Let them sleep let them sleep on | F |
| Till the stormy night be gone | G |
| And the eternal morrow dawn | G |
| Then the curtains will be drawn | G |
| And they wake into a light | H |
| Whose day shall never die in night | H |
Richard Crashaw
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Charlotte Kettle: This epitaph is on my grandparents' grave at Keston Parish Church UK, although they died 34 years apart in 1939 and 1973. I'm so pleased that after all these years I have discovered its origin.