Of Death & Resurrection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEDD FFGHDDIJEEDD| Like to the rowling of an eye | A |
| Or like a starre shott from the skye | A |
| Or like a hand upon a clock | B |
| Or like a wave upon a rock | B |
| Or like a winde or like a flame | C |
| Or like false newes which people frame | C |
| Even such is man of equall stay | D |
| Whose very growth leades to decay | D |
| The eye is turn'd the starre down bendeth | E |
| The hand doth steale the wave descendeth | E |
| The winde is spent the flame unfir'd | D |
| The newes disprov'd man's life expir'd | D |
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| Like to an eye which sleepe doth chayne | F |
| Or like a starre whose fall we fayne | F |
| Or like the shade on Ahaz watch | G |
| Or like a wave which gulfes doe snatch | H |
| Or like a winde or flame that's past | D |
| Or smother'd newes confirm'd at last | D |
| Even so man's life pawn'd in the grave | I |
| Wayts for a riseing it must have | J |
| The eye still sees the starre still blazeth | E |
| The shade goes back the wave escapeth | E |
| The winde is turn'd the flame reviv'd | D |
| The newes renew'd and man new liv'd | D |
William Strode
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