O Death, O Death, Rock Me Asleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDDEF GHIHDDDEF HFEFDDDEF JKLKDMDMEMEEO 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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