Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Dust Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FFGGHHEE AAIIFFEE| Is there a Death The light of day | A |
| At eventide shall fade away | A |
| From out the sod's eternal gloom | B |
| The flowers in their season bloom | B |
| Bud bloom and fade and soon the spot | C |
| Whereon they flourished knows them not | C |
| Blighted by chill autumnal frost | D |
| Ashes to ashes dust to dust | E |
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| Is there a Death Pale forms of men | F |
| To formless clay resolve again | F |
| Sarcophagus of graven stone | G |
| Nor solitary grave unknown | G |
| Mausoleum or funeral urn | H |
| No answer to our cries return | H |
| Nor silent lips disclose their trust | E |
| Ashes to ashes dust to dust | E |
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| Is there a Death All forms of clay | A |
| Successively shall pass away | A |
| But as the joyous days of spring | I |
| Witness the glad awakening | I |
| Of nature's forces may not men | F |
| In some due season rise again | F |
| Then why this calm inherent trust | E |
| If ashes to ashes dust to dust | E |
Alfred Castner King
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