On The Death Of Sir Tho: Peltham Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEAAFFGGDDHHEE IJKKDLMMMMAAAADD| Meerly for man's death to mourne | A |
| Were to repine that man was borne | A |
| When weake old age doth fall asleepe | B |
| Twere foule ingratitude to weepe | B |
| Those threads alone should pull out tears | C |
| Whose sodayne cracke breaks off some years | D |
| Heere tis not so full distance heere | E |
| Sunders the cradle from the beere | E |
| A fellow traveller he hath beene | A |
| So long with Time so worne to skinne | A |
| That were hee not just now bereft | F |
| His Body first his soule had left | F |
| Threescore and tenne is Nature's date | G |
| Our journey when wee come in late | G |
| Beyond that time the overplus | D |
| Was granted not to him but us | D |
| For his own sake the Sun nere stood | H |
| But only for the peoples good | H |
| Even so his breath held out by aire | E |
| Which poore men uttered in theyr prayer | E |
| And as his goods were lent to give | I |
| So were his dayes that they might live | J |
| Soe ten years more to him were told | K |
| Enough to make another olde | K |
| O that Death would still doe soe | D |
| Or else on good men would bestow | L |
| That wast of years which unthrifts fling | M |
| Away by theyr distempering | M |
| That some might thrive by this decay | M |
| As well as that of land and clay | M |
| 'Twas now well done no cause to moane | A |
| On such a seasonable stone | A |
| Where death is but an Host we sinne | A |
| Not bidding welcome to his Inne | A |
| Sleepe sleepe thy rest good man embrace | D |
| Sleepe sleepe th' ast trode a weary race | D |
William Strode
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