The Burial Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBBBBBBBBDEFGDEB BHHH IIJCCK| His eyes in eclipse | A |
| Pale cold his lips | A |
| The light of his hopes unfed | B |
| Mute his tongue | C |
| His bow unstrung | C |
| With the tears he hath shed | B |
| Backward drooping his graceful head | B |
| Love is dead | B |
| His last arrow is sped | B |
| He hath not another dart | B |
| Go carry him to his dark deathbed | B |
| Bury him in the cold cold heart | B |
| Love is dead | B |
| O truest love art thou forlorn | D |
| And unrevenged thy pleasant wiles | E |
| Forgotten and thine innocent joy | F |
| Shall hollow hearted apathy | G |
| The cruellest form of perfect scorn | D |
| With languor of most hateful smiles | E |
| For ever write | B |
| In the withered light | B |
| Of the tearless eye | H |
| And epitaph that all may spy | H |
| No sooner she herself shall die | H |
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| For her the showers shall not fall | I |
| Nor the round sun shine that shineth to all | I |
| Her light shall into darkness change | J |
| For her the green grass shall not spring | C |
| Nor the rivers flow nor the sweet birds sing | C |
| Till Love have his full revenge | K |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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