Dirge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDCEEFF AAEGEGEEFF AAHIHIEEFF AAHJHJEEFF| Ring out your bells let mourning shows be spread | A |
| For Love is dead | A |
| All Love is dead infected | B |
| With plague of deep disdain | C |
| Worth as nought worth rejected | D |
| And faith fair scorn doth gain | C |
| From so ungrateful fancy | E |
| From such a female frenzy | E |
| From them that use men thus | F |
| Good Lord deliver us | F |
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| Weep neighbours weep do you not hear it said | A |
| That Love is dead | A |
| His death bed peacock's folly | E |
| His winding sheet is shame | G |
| His will false seeming holy | E |
| His sole executor blame | G |
| From so ungrateful fancy | E |
| From such a female frenzy | E |
| From them that use men thus | F |
| Good Lord deliver us | F |
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| Let dirge be sung and trentals rightly read | A |
| For Love is dead | A |
| Sir Wrong his tomb ordaineth | H |
| My mistress' marble heart | I |
| Which epitaph containeth | H |
| Her eyes were once his dart | I |
| From so ungrateful fancy | E |
| From such a female frenzy | E |
| From them that use men thus | F |
| Good Lord deliver us | F |
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| Alas I lie rage hath this error bred | A |
| Love is not dead | A |
| Love is not dead but sleepeth | H |
| In her unmatched mind | J |
| Where she his counsel keepeth | H |
| Till due deserts she find | J |
| Therefore from so vile fancy | E |
| To call such wit a frenzy | E |
| Who Love can temper thus | F |
| Good Lord deliver us | F |
Sir Philip Sidney
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