To Doctor Alabaster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFGHHIJKKLLJJ MM| Nor art thou less esteem'd that I have plac'd | A |
| Amongst mine honour'd thee almost the last | B |
| In great processions many lead the way | C |
| To him who is the triumph of the day | C |
| As these have done to thee who art the one | D |
| One only glory of a million | D |
| In whom the spirit of the gods does dwell | E |
| Firing thy soul by which thou dost foretell | E |
| When this or that vast dynasty must fall | F |
| Down to a fillet more imperial | G |
| When this or that horn shall be broke and when | H |
| Others shall spring up in their place again | H |
| When times and seasons and all years must lie | I |
| Drowned in the sea of wild eternity | J |
| When the black doomsday books as yet unseal'd | K |
| Shall by the mighty angel be reveal'd | K |
| And when the trumpet which thou late hast found | L |
| Shall call to judgment Tell us when the sound | L |
| Of this or that great April day shall be | J |
| And next the Gospel we will credit thee | J |
| Meantime like earth worms we will crawl below | M |
| And wonder at those things that thou dost know | M |
Robert Herrick
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