In Mortem Meditare Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBC DEFFE GHGGH IFIIF JKJJK LMLLM FFFFF NONNO PQPPQ FRFFS TUTTU VFVVF WXYYX ZA2ZZA2 FB2FFB2 VC2VVD2| DYING THOUGHTS | A |
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| As Life's receding sunset fades | B |
| And night descends | C |
| I calmly watch the gathering shades | B |
| As darkness stealthily invades | B |
| And daylight ends | C |
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| Earth's span is drawing to its close | D |
| With every breath | E |
| My pain racked brain no respite knows | F |
| Yet shrinks it from the grim repose | F |
| It feels in death | E |
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| The curtain falls on Life's last scene | G |
| The end is neared | H |
| At last I face death's somber screen | G |
| The fleeting joys which intervene | G |
| Have disappeared | H |
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| And as a panoramic scroll | I |
| The past unreels | F |
| The mocking past beyond control | I |
| Though buried as a parchment roll | I |
| Its tale reveals | F |
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| I stand before the dread unknown | J |
| Yet solemn fact | K |
| I see the seeds of folly sown | J |
| In wayward years maturely grown | J |
| Nor can retract | K |
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| My weaknesses rise to my sight | L |
| And now too late | M |
| I fain would former actions right | L |
| Which years have buried in their flight | L |
| Now sealed by fate | M |
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| My frailties and iniquities | F |
| I plainly see | F |
| Committed acts accusive rise | F |
| Omitted duties criticise | F |
| In mockery | F |
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| I feel I have offended oft | N |
| E'en at my best | O |
| Have failed to guide my course aloft | N |
| Perhaps in trival hour have scoffed | N |
| With idle jest | O |
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| Prone to misgiving prone to doubt | P |
| And frail from birth | Q |
| More light and frivolous than devout | P |
| With life's brief candle flickering out | P |
| I speed from earth | Q |
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| Can grief excuse indifference | F |
| With groan or tear | R |
| Can deep remorse and penitence | F |
| Or anguish mitigate offense | F |
| With pang sincere | S |
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| Ah Tears can ne'er unlock the past | T |
| Which opens not | U |
| And what is done is welded fast | T |
| Through all eternity to last | T |
| Nor change one jot | U |
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| Whate'er may lie beyond the veil | V |
| I calmly face | F |
| And sink as grievous tears bewail | V |
| My faults and imperfections frail | V |
| In death's embrace | F |
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| And as I think the matter o'er | W |
| Pensive and sad | X |
| While its shortcomings I deplore | Y |
| The fruits which my existence bore | Y |
| Were not all bad | X |
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| From all which can rejoice or grieve | Z |
| I shortly go | A2 |
| And now in life's declining eve | Z |
| I wonder hope try to believe | Z |
| Soon I shall know | A2 |
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| My spirit flees as night enwraps | F |
| To its reward | B2 |
| The earth recedes I feel it lapse | F |
| I sink as dissolution snaps | F |
| The silver cord | B2 |
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| O Thou whose presence I can feel | V |
| Each hour I live | C2 |
| While passing through death's stern ordeal | V |
| Wilt Thou Thy mercy still reveal | V |
| And still forgive | D2 |
Alfred Castner King
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