A Dirge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABCDDCCDEFFEEFCG GCCGA 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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