On The Death Of Dr. Lancton President Of Maudlin College Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFBBGGBBAAAA HHBBCCAAHHIIAACCJJHH JJHHAA| When men for injuryes unsatisfy'd | A |
| For hopes cutt off for debts not fully payd | A |
| For legacies in vain expected mourne | B |
| Over theyr owne respects within the urne | B |
| Races of tears all striveing first to fall | C |
| As frequent are as eye and funerall | C |
| Then high swolne sighes drawne in and sent out strong | D |
| Seeme to call back the soule or goe along | D |
| Goodness is seldome such a theam of woe | E |
| Unless to her owne tribe some one or two | F |
| But here's a man alas a shell of man | B |
| Whose innocence more white than silver swan | B |
| Now finds a streame of teares such perfect greif | G |
| That in the traine of mourners hee is cheife | G |
| Who lives the greatest gainer and would faine | B |
| Bee now prefer'd unto his loss againe | B |
| The webb of nerves with subtill branches spred | A |
| Over the little world are in theyr head | A |
| Scarce so united as in him were knitt | A |
| All his dependants Hee that strives to sitt | A |
| So lov'd of all must bee a man as square | H |
| As vertues selfe which those that fly and feare | H |
| Can never hate How seldome have we seene | B |
| Such store of flesh joyn'd with so little sin | B |
| His body was not greater than his soule | C |
| Whose limbs were vertues able to controule | C |
| All grudg of sloth and as the body's weight | A |
| Hal'd to the centre so the soule as light | A |
| Heav'd upward to her goale This civill jarre | H |
| Could not hold out but made them part as farre | H |
| As earth and heaven from whence the one shall come | I |
| To make her mate more fresh less cumbersome | I |
| After so sound a sleepe so sweet a rest | A |
| And both shall then appeare so trimly drest | A |
| As freinds that goe to meet the body shall | C |
| Then seeme a soule the soule Angellicall | C |
| A beautious smile shall passe from that to this | J |
| The joyning soule shall then the body kisse | J |
| With its owne lipps so great shall be the store | H |
| Of joy and love that now thei'l part no more | H |
| Such hope hath dust besides which happines | J |
| Death hath not made his earthly share the lesse | J |
| Or quite bereft him of his honors here | H |
| But added more for liveing hee did steere | H |
| The fellowes only but since hee is dead | A |
| Hee's made a president unto theyr head | A |
William Strode
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