On Ye Queens Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDDEEFFCCGGCCHHHThe Persians us'd at setting of ye sunn | A |
To howl as if he nere again should runn | A |
They onely acted it but we indeed | B |
Must doot for all that lovely was is fled | C |
all that was great good Just vertuous Dead | C |
The poets of ye graces do relate | D |
that they did upon none but Venus wait | D |
'Tis false or this was she for in each eye | E |
of hers ten thousand graces you might spy | E |
So many her vertues were Death heard ym told | F |
Mistook ye for her dayes thought her old | F |
yet she is gone all that was lovely fled | C |
all that was great good Just vertuous dead | C |
When Romulus was taken to ye gods | G |
Ceesar mounted to ye blest abodes | G |
in floods earth quakes nature Largely grievd | C |
for these her Heroes heaven had receivd | C |
She wept indeed then now she cannot weep | H |
the stillness of ye waves but shows ye deep | H |
the greatness of ye Loss putts all her faculties asleep | H |
Thomas Parnell
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