The Dead Beggar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGAGHIHJ KLMNOPOPQRQRSTIT| AN ELEGY | A |
| Addressed to a Lady who was affected at seeing the | B |
| Funeral of a nameless Pauper buried at the ex | C |
| pense of the Parish in the Church Yard at Bright | D |
| helmstone in November | E |
| SWELLS then thy feeling heart and streams thine eye | F |
| O'er the deserted being poor and old | G |
| Whom cold reluctant parish charity | A |
| Consigns to mingle with his kindred mould | G |
| Mourn'st thou that here the time worn sufferer ends | H |
| Those evil days still threatening woes to come | I |
| Here where the friendless feel no want of friends | H |
| Where even the houseless wanderer finds a home | J |
| - | |
| What though no kindred crowd in sable forth | K |
| And sigh or seem to sigh around his bier | L |
| Though o'er his coffin with the humid earth | M |
| No children drop the unavailing tear | N |
| Rather rejoice that here his sorrows cease | O |
| Whom sickness age and poverty oppress'd | P |
| Where death the leveller restores to peace | O |
| The wretch who living knew not where to rest | P |
| Rejoice that though an outcast spurn'd by fate | Q |
| Through penury's rugged path his race he ran | R |
| In earth's cold bosom equall'd with the great | Q |
| Death vindicates the insulted rights of man | R |
| Rejoice that though severe his earthly doom | S |
| And rude and sown with thorns the way he trod | T |
| Now where unfeeling fortune cannot come | I |
| He rests upon the mercies of his God | T |
Charlotte Smith
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation