To Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDB EFGDGDF HBIDIDB JDKDKDD LDCDCDDCome not in terrors clad to claim | A |
An unresisting prey | B |
Come like an evening shadow Death | C |
So stealthily so silently | D |
And shut mine eyes and steal my breath | C |
Then willingly O willingly | D |
With thee I'll go away | B |
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What need to clutch with iron grasp | E |
What gentlest touch may take | F |
What need with aspect dark to scare | G |
So awfully so terribly | D |
The weary soul would hardly care | G |
Call'd quietly call'd tenderly | D |
From thy dread power to break | F |
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'Tis not as when thou markest out | H |
The young the blest the gay | B |
The loved the loving they who dream | I |
So happily so hopefully | D |
Then harsh thy kindest call may seem | I |
And shrinkingly reluctantly | D |
The summon'd may obey | B |
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But I have drunk enough of life | J |
The cup assign'd to me | D |
Dash'd with a little sweet at best | K |
So scantily so scantily | D |
To know full well that all the rest | K |
More bitterly more bitterly | D |
Drugg'd to the last will be | D |
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And I may live to pain some heart | L |
That kindly cares for me | D |
To pain but not to bless O Death | C |
Come quietly come lovingly | D |
And shut mine eyes and steal my breath | C |
Then willingly O willingly | D |
I'll go away with thee | D |
Caroline Southey
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