Life And Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFEFDG HDHDII

A little light heat motion breathA
Then silence darkness and decayB
This is the change from life to deathA
In him the weareth clayB
But Time s one drop twixt that and thisC
Ah What a gulf of doom it isD
The cheek is fair the eye is boldE
The ripe lip like a berry redF
Then the shroud clothes them thus beholdE
The living and the deadF
And how time s last cold drop serenceD
Swells to eternity betweenG
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Yet not for horror nor to weepH
But through the solemn dark to seeD
That life though swift is wonder deepH
And death the only keyD
That lets to that mysterious heightI
Where earth and heaven in God uniteI

Charles Harpur



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