His Meditation Upon Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
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| BE those few hours which I have yet to spend | B |
| Blest with the meditation of my end | B |
| Though they be few in number I'm content | C |
| If otherwise I stand indifferent | D |
| Nor makes it matter Nestor's years to tell | E |
| If man lives long and if he live not well | E |
| A multitude of days still heaped on | F |
| Seldom brings order but confusion | G |
| Might I make choice long life should be with stood | H |
| Nor would I care how short it were if good | H |
| Which to effect let ev'ry passing bell | E |
| Possess my thoughts next comes my doleful knell | E |
| And when the night persuades me to my bed | I |
| I'll think I'm going to be buried | J |
| So shall the blankets which come over me | K |
| Present those turfs which once must cover me | K |
| And with as firm behaviour I will meet | L |
| The sheet I sleep in as my winding sheet | L |
| When Sleep shall bathe his body in mine eyes | M |
| I will believe that then my body dies | M |
| And if I chance to wake and rise thereon | N |
| I'll have in mind my resurrection | G |
| Which must produce me to that Gen'ral Doom | O |
| To which the peasant so the prince must come | P |
| To hear the Judge give sentence on the Throne | Q |
| Without the least hope of affection | G |
| Tears at that day shall make but weak defense | R |
| When Hell and horror fright the conscience | S |
| Let me though late yet at the last begin | T |
| To shun the least temptation to a sin | T |
| Though to be tempted be no sin until | U |
| Man to th'alluring object gives his will | U |
| Such let my life assure me when my breath | V |
| Goes thieving from me I am safe in death | V |
| Which is the height of comfort when I fall | W |
| I rise triumphant in my funeral | X |
Robert Herrick
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