Epitaph Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCCCDDDEEEFGHIIIJ JJKLL MMNOOPQRRBBB| The Earth Speaks | A |
| HUSH he drowses drowses deep | B |
| While my quiet arms I keep | B |
| Close about him in his sleep | B |
| Once he glanced at me aghast | C |
| Shuddered from my kiss and passed | C |
| But I hold him here at last | C |
| He had frenzied thoughts of fame | D |
| Piteous strivings for a name | D |
| But I called him and he came | D |
| Called him with the mother call | E |
| That shall on the weary fall | E |
| Whispering Home to all to all | E |
| Fair white skin he looked upon | F |
| Eyes in his with passion shone | G |
| But my patient love has won | H |
| There was one he deemed to wed | I |
| But he faltered came instead | I |
| To my narrow bridal bed | I |
| Vehement his veins and wild | J |
| Now a dreaming glad eyed child | J |
| To my kisses reconciled | J |
| Tender heart and turbulent | K |
| I and he together pent | L |
| In an on of content | L |
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| Heaven holds for him no prize | M |
| Stirless nested here he lies | M |
| In his narrow Paradise | N |
| When his trump God's Angel blows | O |
| When he shudders wakens knows | O |
| I shall hold him close so close | P |
| He will feel life's aching pain | Q |
| Turn his lips to me and then | R |
| Sink to dreamless sleep again | R |
| So for aye my love I keep | B |
| Here upon my breast asleep | B |
| Hush he drowses drowses deep | B |
Arthur Henry Adams
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