Weep Not For Him That Dieth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBDBDA BEBEBFBFA BGBGBHBHI BJBKBDBD| I | A |
| - | |
| WEEP not for him that dieth | B |
| For he sleeps and is at rest | C |
| And the couch whereon he lieth | B |
| Is the green earth's quiet breast | C |
| But weep for him who pineth | B |
| On a far land's hateful shore | D |
| Who wearily declineth | B |
| Where ye see his face no more | D |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Weep not for him that dieth | B |
| For friends are round his bed | E |
| And many a young lip sigheth | B |
| When they name the early dead | E |
| But weep for him that liveth | B |
| Where none will know or care | F |
| When the groan his faint heart giveth | B |
| Is the last sigh of despair | F |
| III | A |
| - | |
| Weep not for him that dieth | B |
| For his struggling soul is free | G |
| And the world from which it flieth | B |
| Is a world of misery | G |
| But weep for him that weareth | B |
| The captive's galling chain | H |
| To the agony he beareth | B |
| Death were but little pain | H |
| IV | I |
| - | |
| Weep not for him that dieth | B |
| For he hath ceased from tears | J |
| And a voice to his replieth | B |
| Which he hath not heard for years | K |
| But weep for him who weepeth | B |
| On that cold land's cruel shore | D |
| Blest blest is he that sleepeth | B |
| Weep for the dead no more | D |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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