Death, be not proud: Structure

English

The pattern of rhyming words at the end of lines

Five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables

How the poem is put together and laid out on the page

12 lines, one stanza and a rhyming couplet

14 lines, one stanza and a specific rhyme scheme

16 lines, two stanzas and a specific rhyme scheme

18 lines, three stanza and a rhyming couplet

A slave to fate, chance, kings and desperate men

A life after you die that goes on forever

Death does not exist in the eternal afterlife