To Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDB EFGDGDF HBIDIDB JDKDKDD LDCDCDD| Come 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 |
| - | |
| 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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