To His Dying Brother, Master William Herrick Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGHIIJKLLMM| Life of my life take not so soon thy flight | A |
| But stay the time till we have bade good night | A |
| Thou hast both wind and tide with thee thy way | B |
| As soon dispatch'd is by the night as day | B |
| Let us not then so rudely henceforth go | C |
| Till we have wept kiss'd sigh'd shook hands or so | C |
| There's pain in parting and a kind of hell | D |
| When once true lovers take their last farewell | D |
| What shall we two our endless leaves take here | E |
| Without a sad look or a solemn tear | F |
| He knows not love that hath not this truth proved | G |
| Love is most loth to leave the thing beloved | H |
| Pay we our vows and go yet when we part | I |
| Then even then I will bequeath my heart | I |
| Into thy loving hands for I'll keep none | J |
| To warm my breast when thou my pulse art gone | K |
| No here I'll last and walk a harmless shade | L |
| About this urn wherein thy dust is laid | L |
| To guard it so as nothing here shall be | M |
| Heavy to hurt those sacred seeds of thee | M |
Robert Herrick
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