A Dirge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABCDDCCDEFFEEFCG GCCG| A bell tolls on in my heart | A |
| As though in my ears a knell | B |
| Had ceased for awhile to swell | B |
| But the sense of it would not part | A |
| From the spirit that bears its part | A |
| In the chime of the soundless bell | B |
| Ah dear dead singer of sorrow | C |
| The burden is now not thine | D |
| That grief bade sound for a sign | D |
| Through the songs of the night whose morrow | C |
| Has risen and I may not borrow | C |
| A beam from its radiant shrine | D |
| The burden has dropped from thee | E |
| That grief on thy life bound fast | F |
| The winter is over and past | F |
| Whose end thou wast fain to see | E |
| Shall sorrow not comfort me | E |
| That is thine no longer at last | F |
| Good day good night and good morrow | C |
| Men living and mourning say | G |
| For thee we could only pray | G |
| That night of the day might borrow | C |
| Such comfort as dreams lend sorrow | C |
| Death gives thee at last good day | G |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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