On Dr. Brown's Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGHIJKLLMMNN AAOPQRSTTTHU AVVWXYZUA2UA2CB2CB2C 2C2D2D2DBD2D2D2D2 AUE2DBF2G2D2D2H2I2AA BE2J2AJ2TTOO| I | A |
| Alas will nothing do | B |
| Nothing arrest the arm of Death | C |
| Must learning sence nay virtue too | B |
| Must these or real blessings go | D |
| like all things else beneath | E |
| Must these best guifts while here yey shine | F |
| Like ye great Stagyrites stars in solid spheres | G |
| A common power wth worthless meteors share | H |
| To guild the orbs they're in | I |
| Yes now we find it so since he is gone | J |
| In whom enough of goodness shone | K |
| T'adorn an age a second Sodom save | L |
| but not himself from the devouring grave | L |
| He's gone that prodigious store | M |
| Of piety wch here he bore | M |
| Sat on him onely like the Summers pride | N |
| Which crown'd ye ancients victims 'ere they dy'd | N |
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| II | A |
| He's gon far far on high | A |
| Born on ye wings of virtue to his skye | O |
| for sure this world was lesse yn t'other his | P |
| So much he courted that so little this | Q |
| Besides had he been hers ye earth had mourn'd his loss | R |
| In dreadfull heavings unwonted flows | S |
| But silently he stole away | T |
| Like some celestial ray | T |
| Wch plays awhile upon ye wings of day | T |
| Then soft retiring off ye Air | H |
| Do's without troubling nature disappear | U |
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| III | A |
| Sure but avert ye omen fate | V |
| Sure a decay of learning's state | V |
| Is now just now a pressing on | W |
| Wn thus her great good pillar tumbles down | X |
| Wn the light's gone wch show'd us to advance | Y |
| Thro ye gyptian night of ignorance | Z |
| For why why mayn't we fear | U |
| 'Twill ye same course wth nature run | A2 |
| Wch when ye generall dissolution's near | U |
| Shall see a genuine night Ecclypse her sun | A2 |
| How well how too too well does death | C |
| The cause of ignorance maintain | B2 |
| Robbing her rivalls leader of his breath | C |
| To fix his Tyrant sisters reign | B2 |
| How too too well he mocks or blooming joys | C2 |
| him all or hopes destroys | C2 |
| Him of the tree of life depriving thus | D2 |
| of the tree of knowledge us | D2 |
| Thus have his arms disabled at a blow | D |
| Both learnings Monarch its empire too | B |
| Just so ye Epick muse indites | D2 |
| Ending wth some great life ye enterprise | D2 |
| Nor longer toyles she ore her pageant fights | D2 |
| The work is ended wn an Heroe dyes | D2 |
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| IV | A |
| Curst be the Hour ye Day ye Year | U |
| Curst ye disease that ravish'd hence or seer | E2 |
| Whose sacrilegious dart cou'd show | D |
| That one so good was not immortall too | B |
| Yet wt alas can this avail | F2 |
| Why all this mad distemper'd Zeal | G2 |
| As wt it did were the effects of chance | D2 |
| not of providence | D2 |
| No the impatient heavens thought long to want | H2 |
| In their blest choirs so true a saint | I2 |
| And sent a ministring sickness from above | A |
| his earthy fetters to remove | A |
| It came ye call he knew | B |
| streight obey'd streight wthdrew | E2 |
| Loos'd from ye chains of flesh his freer mind | J2 |
| Rose up to sacred love | A |
| To perfect saint or seraphim refin'd | J2 |
| Quitting his lump of clay | T |
| As subtle spirits fume away | T |
| Loos'd from their earth they upward mount they flye | O |
| They light they shine blaze along the skye | O |
Thomas Parnell
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