On Dr. Brown's Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGHIJKLLMMNN AAOPQRSTTTHU AVVWXYZUA2UA2CB2CB2C 2C2D2D2DBD2D2D2D2 AUE2DBF2G2D2D2H2I2AA BE2J2AJ2TTOOI | 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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