Stanzas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CC DE BFBF GCGC CHCH IJIJ KLKM NONO PQPR STST UVUV| Subjoined To The Yearly Bill Of Mortality Of The Parish Of All Saints Northampton Anno Domini | A |
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| Composed for John Cox parish clerk of Northampton | B |
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| Pallida mors quo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas | C |
| Regumque turres Horace | C |
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| Pale death with equal foot strikes wide the door | D |
| Of royal halls and hovels of the poor | E |
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| While thirteen moons saw smoothly run | B |
| The Nen's barge laden wave | F |
| All these life's rambling journey done | B |
| Have found their home the grave | F |
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| Was man frail always made more frail | G |
| Than in foregoing years | C |
| Did famine or did plague prevail | G |
| That so much death appears | C |
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| No these were vigorous as their sires | C |
| Nor plague nor famine came | H |
| This annual tribute Death requires | C |
| And never waves his claim | H |
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| Like crowded forest trees we stand | I |
| And some are mark'd to fall | J |
| The axe will smite at God's command | I |
| And soon shall smite us all | J |
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| Green as the bay tree ever green | K |
| With its new foliage on | L |
| The gay the thoughtless have I seen | K |
| I pass'd and they were gone | M |
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| Read ye that run the awful truth | N |
| With which I charge my page | O |
| A worm is in the bud of youth | N |
| And at the root of age | O |
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| No present health can health ensure | P |
| For yet an hour to come | Q |
| No medicine though it oft can cure | P |
| Can always balk the tomb | R |
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| And O that humble as my lot | S |
| And scorn'd as is my strain | T |
| These truths though known too much forgot | S |
| I may not teach in vain | T |
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| So prays your clerk with all his heart | U |
| And ere he quits the pen | V |
| Begs you for once to take his part | U |
| And answer all Amen | V |
William Cowper
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