On The Death Of Mrs. Elizabeth Filmer. An Elegiacall Epitaph Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCCCCDECCCCFFGGHI JJCCKKAA LLJJJJMM JJNNCCJJ| You that shall live awhile before | A |
| Old time tyrs and is no more | A |
| When that this ambitious stone | B |
| Stoopes low as what it tramples on | C |
| Know that in that age when sinne | C |
| Gave the world law and governd Queene | C |
| A virgin liv'd that still put on | C |
| White thoughts though out of fashion | C |
| That trac't the stars 'spite of report | D |
| And durst be good though chidden for't | E |
| Of such a soule that infant Heav'n | C |
| Repented what it thus had giv'n | C |
| For finding equall happy man | C |
| Th' impatient pow'rs snatch it agen | C |
| Thus chaste as th' ayre whither shee's fled | F |
| She making her celestiall bed | F |
| In her warme alablaster lay | G |
| As cold is in this house of clay | G |
| Nor were the rooms unfit to feast | H |
| Or circumscribe this angel guest | I |
| The radiant gemme was brightly set | J |
| In as divine a carkanet | J |
| Of which the clearer was not knowne | C |
| Her minde or her complexion | C |
| Such an everlasting grace | K |
| Such a beatifick face | K |
| Incloysters here this narrow floore | A |
| That possest all hearts before | A |
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| Blest and bewayl'd in death and birth | L |
| The smiles and teares of heav'n and earth | L |
| Virgins at each step are afeard | J |
| Filmer is shot by which they steer'd | J |
| Their star extinct their beauty dead | J |
| That the yong world to honour led | J |
| But see the rapid spheres stand still | M |
| And tune themselves unto her will | M |
| - | |
| Thus although this marble must | J |
| As all things crumble into dust | J |
| And though you finde this faire built tombe | N |
| Ashes as what lyes in its wombe | N |
| Yet her saint like name shall shine | C |
| A living glory to this shrine | C |
| And her eternall fame be read | J |
| When all but VERY VERTUE'S DEAD | J |
Richard Lovelace
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