Upon The Death Of His Sparrow. An Elegy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCDDAEBFFGGHHHIIJ J| Why do not all fresh maids appear | A |
| To work love's sampler only here | B |
| Where spring time smiles throughout the year | A |
| Are not here rosebuds pinks all flowers | C |
| Nature begets by th' sun and showers | C |
| Met in one hearse cloth to o'erspread | D |
| The body of the under dead | D |
| Phil the late dead the late dead dear | A |
| O may no eye distil a tear | E |
| For you once lost who weep not here | B |
| Had Lesbia too too kind but known | F |
| This sparrow she had scorn'd her own | F |
| And for this dead which under lies | G |
| Wept out her heart as well as eyes | G |
| But endless peace sit here and keep | H |
| My Phil the time he has to sleep | H |
| And thousand virgins come and weep | H |
| To make these flowery carpets show | I |
| Fresh as their blood and ever grow | I |
| Till passengers shall spend their doom | J |
| Not Virgil's gnat had such a tomb | J |
Robert Herrick
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