has been disputed, with attributions to others including Sir Walter Raleigh. However it was printed soon after the Babington plot in a volume called Verses of Praise and Joy in 1586, published by John Wolfe of London to celebrate the Queen's survival and to attack the plotters. In the same volume an answer poem entitled "Hendecasyllabon T. K. in Cygneam Cantionem Chideochi Tychborne" ("T. K.'s Hendecasyllabon Against Chidiock Tichborne's Swan Song") is most likely by the poet and dramatist Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy. Hendecasyllabon T. K. in Cygneam Cantionem Chideochi Tychborne Thy prime of youth is frozen with thy faults, Thy feast of joy is finisht with thy fall; Thy crop of corn is tares availing naughts, Thy good God knows thy hope, thy hap and all. Short were thy days, and shadowed was thy sun, T'obscure thy light unluckily begun. Time trieth truth, and truth hath treason tripped; Thy faith bare fruit as thou hadst faithless been: Thy ill spent youth thine after years hath nipt; And God that saw thee hath preserved our Queen. Her thread still holds, thine perished though unspun, And she shall live when traitors lives are done. Thou soughtst thy death, and found it in desert, Thou look'dst for life, yet lewdly forc'd it fade: Thou trodst the earth, and now on earth thou art, As men may wish thou never hadst been made. Thy glory, and thy glass are timeless run; And this, O Tychborne, hath thy treason done. Critical appreciation Elegy Tichborne's "Elegy" (his rhyming, final soliloquy poem), uses two favourite Renaissance figures of speech – antithesis and paradox – to crystallise the tragedy of the poet's situation. Antithesis means setting opposites against each other: prime of youth / frost of cares (from the first line). This is typical of Renaissance poetry, as for example in Wyatt's "I find no peace, and all my war is done", with the lover freezing/burning. It also appears in the poem by Elizabeth I "I grieve and dare not show my discontent", e.g., "I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned." A paradox is a statement which seems self-contradictory, yet is true, e.g., "My tale is heard, and yet it was not told", or "My glass is full, and now my glass is run." Often a Renaissance poem will begin with antithesis to establish circumstances and reveal its themes through paradox.