O Death, O Death, Rock Me Asleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDDEF GHIHDDDEF HFEFDDDEF JKLKDMDMEMEE| O Death O Death rock me asleep | A |
| Bring me to quiet rest | B |
| Let pass my weary guiltless ghost | C |
| Out of my careful breast | B |
| Toll on thou passing bell | D |
| Ring out my doleful knell | D |
| Thy sound my death abroad will tell | D |
| For I must die | E |
| There is no remedy | F |
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| My pains my pains who can express | G |
| Alas they are so strong | H |
| My dolours will not suffer strength | I |
| My life for to prolong | H |
| Toll on thou passing bell | D |
| Ring out my doleful knell | D |
| Thy sound my death abroad will tell | D |
| For I must die | E |
| There is no remedy | F |
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| Alone alone in prison strong | H |
| I wail my destiny | F |
| Woe worth this cruel hap that I | E |
| Must taste this misery | F |
| Toll on thou passing bell | D |
| Ring out my doleful knell | D |
| Thy sound my death abroad will tell | D |
| For I must die | E |
| There is no remedy | F |
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| Farewell farewell my pleasures past | J |
| Welcome my present pain | K |
| I feel my torment so increase | L |
| That life cannot remain | K |
| Cease now thou passing bell | D |
| Ring out my doleful knoll | M |
| For thou my death dost tell | D |
| Lord pity thou my soul | M |
| Death doth draw nigh | E |
| Sound dolefully | M |
| For now I die | E |
| I die I die | E |
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