At A Dog's Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCCBCBCBC ADADAADADADA AEFEFFEGEFEF| I | A |
| Good night we say when comes the time to win | B |
| The daily death divine that shuts up sight | C |
| Sleep that assures for all who dwell therein | B |
| Good night | C |
| The shadow shed round those we love shines bright | C |
| As love's own face when death sleep's gentler twin | B |
| From them divides us even as night from light | C |
| Shall friends born lower in life though pure of sin | B |
| Though clothed with love and faith to usward plight | C |
| Perish and pass unbidden of us their kin | B |
| Good night | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| To die a dog's death once was held for shame | D |
| Not all men so beloved and mourned shall lie | A |
| As many of these whose time untimely came | D |
| To die | A |
| His years were full his years were joyous why | A |
| Must love be sorrow when his gracious name | D |
| Recalls his lovely life of limb and eye | A |
| If aught of blameless life on earth may claim | D |
| Life higher than death though death's dark wave rise high | A |
| Such life as this among us never came | D |
| To die | A |
| - | |
| III | A |
| White violets there by hands more sweet than they | E |
| Planted shall sweeten April's flowerful air | F |
| About a grave that shows to night and day | E |
| White violets there | F |
| A child's light hands whose touch makes flowers more fair | F |
| Keep fair as these for many a March and May | E |
| The light of days that are because they were | G |
| It shall not like a blossom pass away | E |
| It broods and brightens with the days that bear | F |
| Fresh fruits of love but leave as love might pray | E |
| White violets there | F |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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