Sweet Love Is Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF GHGGH| Sweet Love is dead | A |
| Where shall we bury him | B |
| In a green bed | A |
| With no stone at his head | A |
| And no tears nor prayers to worry him | B |
| - | |
| Do you think he will sleep | C |
| Dreamless and quiet | D |
| Yes if we keep | C |
| Silence nor weep | C |
| O'er the grave where the ground worms riot | D |
| - | |
| By his tomb let us part | E |
| But hush he is waking | F |
| He hath winged a dart | E |
| And the mock cold heart | E |
| With the woe of want is aching | F |
| - | |
| Feign we no more | G |
| Sweet Love lies breathless | H |
| All we forswore | G |
| Be as before | G |
| Death may die but Love is deathless | H |
Alfred Austin
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