"Here lies our sovereign Lord the King,
Whose word no man relies on,
Who never said a foolish thing
Nor ever did a wise one,"
Based on John Wilmot Rochester's Epitaph on King Charles 11, the form of the above stanza is an example of
An epigram is a brief, witty, and often paradoxical statement or poem that expresses an idea in a clever or satirical way.
In this stanza, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, makes a sharp and ironic comment about King Charles II. The paradox in the last two lines—"Who never said a foolish thing / Nor ever did a wise one"—is a classic example of an epigrammatic style, as it presents a witty contradiction.
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