Remembrances Of The Renowned Knight, Sir Rowland Cotton, Of Bellaport In Shropshire, Concerning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDDCCCC DDEF GHDDII JJCC| Renowned Champion full of wrestling Art | A |
| And made for victory in every part | A |
| Whose active Limbes oyl'd Tongue and vertuous Mind | B |
| Subdu'd both Foe and Friend the Rough and Kind | B |
| Yea ev'n Thy selfe and thy Diseases too | C |
| And all but Death which won with much adoe | C |
| And shall at last be vanquish'd where are now | D |
| Those brawny Armes that crush'd the Dane and how | D |
| Doe all thy Languages to Silence turne | D |
| Babel's undifferenc'd by the speechlesse Urne | D |
| What use of Wisedome now to mold the state | C |
| Where All are Equall to appease debate | C |
| Where All doe sleepe sowre dangers to fore fend | C |
| When Spite hath done her worst and dangers end | C |
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| Had Death a Body like the Dane's or thine | D |
| Th' adst beene Her death if humane Eares like mine | D |
| Thy tongues had charm'd them if a heart to love | E |
| Each quality of thine a dart might prove | F |
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| One Beame thou living hadst of Eminence | G |
| And still in Use left heere and carried hence | H |
| Immortall Love as busie now as then | D |
| There fixt on God yet heere intwin'd with Men | D |
| That makes Thee pray for Us Us write for Thee | I |
| Joynes Heaven and Earth in one Fraternity | I |
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| Love sayes thy Fall's not desparate a Fall | J |
| That hopes for Rising Waite but for a Call | J |
| And thou shalt rise summon'd with Champion sound | C |
| Ant us like more strong from under Ground | C |
William Strode
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