To His Deare Brother Colonel F. L. Immoderately Mourning My Brothers Untimely Death At Carmarthen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCC ADDEE AFGBB HHHGA HIIHH| I | A |
| If teares could wash the ill away | B |
| A pearle for each wet bead I'd pay | B |
| But as dew'd corne the fuller growes | C |
| So water'd eyes but swell our woes | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| One drop another cals which still | D |
| Griefe adding fuell doth distill | D |
| Too fruitfull of her selfe is anguish | E |
| We need no cherishing to languish | E |
| - | |
| III | A |
| Coward fate degen'rate man | F |
| Like little children uses when | G |
| He whips us first untill we weepe | B |
| Then 'cause we still a weeping keepe | B |
| - | |
| IV | H |
| Then from thy firme selfe never swerve | H |
| Teares fat the griefe that they should sterve | H |
| Iron decrees of destinie | G |
| Are ner'e wipe't out with a wet eye | A |
| - | |
| V | H |
| But this way you may gaine the field | I |
| Oppose but sorrow and 'twill yield | I |
| One gallant thorough made resolve | H |
| Doth starry influence dissolve | H |
Richard Lovelace
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