I Think When I Stand In The Presence Of Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH| I think when I stand in the presence of Death | A |
| How futile is earthy endeavor | B |
| If it be with the flight of the last labored breath | A |
| The tongue has been silenced forever | B |
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| For no message is flashed from the lustreless eyes | C |
| When clos ed so languid and weary | D |
| And no voice from the darkness re echoes our cries | C |
| In response to the agonized query | D |
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| We gaze at the solemn mysterious shroud | E |
| With a vague and insatiate yearning | F |
| And perceive but the sombre exterior cloud | E |
| With our vision of no discerning | F |
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| Not a whispering sound not a glimmer of light | G |
| From that shadowy strand uncertain | H |
| But He who ordained the day and night | G |
| Framed also Death's silent curtain | H |
Alfred Castner King
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