Song Before Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFEFCD GHIHCD| Sweet mother in a minute's span | A |
| Death parts thee and my love of thee | B |
| Sweet love that yet art living man | A |
| Come back true love to comfort me | B |
| Back ah come back ah wellaway | C |
| But my love comes not any day | D |
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| As roses when the warm West blows | E |
| Break to full flower and sweeten spring | F |
| My soul would break to a glorious rose | E |
| In such wise at his whispering | F |
| In vain I listen wellaway | C |
| My love says nothing any day | D |
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| You that will weep for pity of love | G |
| On the low place where I am lain | H |
| I pray you having wept enough | I |
| Tell him for whom I bore such pain | H |
| That he was yet ah wellaway | C |
| My true love to my dying day | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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