A Last Request Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEE GHGGH IAIIA| Let not the roses lie | A |
| Too thickly tangled round my tomb | B |
| Lest fleecy clouds that skim the summer sky | A |
| Flinging their faint soft shadows pass it by | A |
| And know not over whom | B |
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| And let not footsteps come | C |
| Too frequent round that nook of rest | D |
| Should I who knoweth not be deaf though dumb | C |
| Bird's idle pipe or bee's laborious hum | C |
| Would suit me listening best | D |
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| And pray you do not hew | E |
| Words to provoke a smile or sneer | F |
| But only carve at least if they be true | E |
| These simple words or some such and as few | E |
| He whom we loved lies here '' | - |
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| And if you only could | G |
| Find out some quite sequestered slope | H |
| That girt behind with undeciduous wood | G |
| In front o'erlooks the ocean then I should | G |
| Die with a calmer hope | H |
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| And if you will but so | I |
| This last request of mine fulfil | A |
| I rest your debtor for the final throw | I |
| And if I can but help you where I go | I |
| Be sure fond friends I will | A |
Alfred Austin
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