Ronsard's Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGDD DDHH IIJJ KKAA DDDD DDLL| Ye wells ye founts that fall | A |
| From the steep mountain wall | A |
| That fall and flash and fleet | B |
| With silver feet | B |
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| Ye woods ye streams that lave | C |
| The meadows with your wave | C |
| Ye hills and valley fair | D |
| Attend my prayer | D |
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| When Heaven and Fate decree | E |
| My latest hour for me | E |
| When I must pass away | F |
| From pleasant day | F |
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| I ask that none my break | G |
| The marble for my sake | G |
| Wishful to make more fair | D |
| My sepulchre | D |
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| Only a laurel tree | D |
| Shall shade the grave of me | D |
| Only Apollo's bough | H |
| Shall guard me now | H |
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| Now shall I be at rest | I |
| Among the spirits blest | I |
| The happy dead that dwell | J |
| Where who may tell | J |
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| The snow and wind and hail | K |
| May never there prevail | K |
| Nor ever thunder fall | A |
| Nor storm at all | A |
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| But always fadeless there | D |
| The woods are green and fair | D |
| And faithful ever more | D |
| Spring to that shore | D |
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| There shall I ever hear | D |
| Alcaeus' music clear | D |
| And sweetest of all things | L |
| There SAPPHO sings | L |
Andrew Lang
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