Upon A Fly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIJKH| A golden fly one show'd to me | A |
| Clos'd in a box of ivory | A |
| Where both seem'd proud the fly to have | B |
| His burial in an ivory grave | C |
| The ivory took state to hold | D |
| A corpse as bright as burnish'd gold | D |
| One fate had both both equal grace | E |
| The buried and the burying place | E |
| Not Virgil's gnat to whom the spring | F |
| All flowers sent to's burying | F |
| Not Martial's bee which in a bead | G |
| Of amber quick was buried | G |
| Nor that fine worm that does inter | H |
| Herself i' th' silken sepulchre | H |
| Nor my rare Phil K that lately was | I |
| With lilies tomb'd up in a glass | J |
| More honour had than this same fly | K |
| Dead and closed up in ivory | H |
Robert Herrick
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