Epitaph On A Free But Tame Redbreast, A Favourite Of Miss Sally Hurdis. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFH IJIJ KBKB LMLM| These are not dewdrops these are tears | A |
| And tears by Sally shed | B |
| For absent Robin who she fears | C |
| With too much cause is dead | B |
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| One morn he came not to her hand | D |
| As he was wont to come | E |
| And on her finger perch'd to stand | D |
| Picking his breakfast crumb | E |
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| Alarm'd she call'd him and perplex'd | F |
| She sought him but in vain | G |
| That day he came not nor the next | F |
| Nor ever came again | H |
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| She therefore raised him here a tomb | I |
| Though where he fell or how | J |
| None knows so secret was his doom | I |
| Nor where he moulders now | J |
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| Had half a score of coxcombs died | K |
| In social Robin's stead | B |
| Poor Sally's tears had soon been dried | K |
| Or haply never shed | B |
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| But Bob was neither rudely bold | L |
| Nor spiritlessly tame | M |
| Nor was like theirs his bosom cold | L |
| But always in a flame | M |
William Cowper
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