Life And Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFEFDG HDHDII| A little light heat motion breath | A |
| Then silence darkness and decay | B |
| This is the change from life to death | A |
| In him the weareth clay | B |
| But Time s one drop twixt that and this | C |
| Ah What a gulf of doom it is | D |
| The cheek is fair the eye is bold | E |
| The ripe lip like a berry red | F |
| Then the shroud clothes them thus behold | E |
| The living and the dead | F |
| And how time s last cold drop serence | D |
| Swells to eternity between | G |
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| Yet not for horror nor to weep | H |
| But through the solemn dark to see | D |
| That life though swift is wonder deep | H |
| And death the only key | D |
| That lets to that mysterious height | I |
| Where earth and heaven in God unite | I |
Charles Harpur
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