The Sad Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFBGEHH AAI JJJ| O the sad day | A |
| When friends shall shake their heads and say | A |
| Of miserable me | B |
| 'Hark how he groans | C |
| Look how he pants for breath | D |
| See how he struggles with the pangs of death ' | E |
| When they shall say of these dear eyes | F |
| 'How hollow O how dim they be | B |
| Mark how his breast doth rise and swell | G |
| Against his potent enemy ' | E |
| When some old friend shall step to my bedside | H |
| Touch my chill face and thence shall gently slide | H |
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| But when his next companions say | A |
| 'How does he do What hopes ' shall turn away | A |
| Answering only with a lift up hand | I |
| 'Who can his fate withstand ' | - |
| - | |
| Then shall a gasp or two do more | J |
| Than e'er my rhetoric could before | J |
| Persuade the world to trouble me no more | J |
Thomas Flatman
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