On The Death Of Mistress Mary Prideaux Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFEEGGHAIIII JJ| Weep not because this childe hath dyed so yong | A |
| But weepe because yourselves have livde so long | A |
| Age is not fild by growth of time for then | B |
| What old man lives to see th' estate of men | B |
| Who sees the age of grande Methusalem | C |
| Ten years make us as old as hundreds him | C |
| Ripenesse is from ourselves and then wee dye | D |
| When nature hath obteynde maturity | E |
| Summer and winter fruits there bee and all | F |
| Not at one time but being ripe must fall | F |
| Death did not erre your mourners are beguilde | E |
| She dyed more like a mother than a childe | E |
| Weigh the composure of her pretty partes | G |
| Her gravity in childhood all her artes | G |
| Of womanly behaviour weigh her tongue | H |
| So wisely measurde not too short nor long | A |
| And to her youth adde some few riches more | I |
| She tooke upp now what due was at threescore | I |
| She livde seven years our age's first degree | I |
| Journeys at first time ended happy bee | I |
| Yet take her stature with the age of man | J |
| They well are fitted both are but a span | J |
William Strode
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