Dead Before Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCCDC| Ah changed and cold how changed and very cold | A |
| With stiffened smiling lips and cold calm eyes | B |
| Changed yet the same much knowing little wise | B |
| This was the promise of the days of old | A |
| Grown hard and stubborn in the ancient mould | A |
| Grown rigid in the sham of lifelong lies | B |
| We hoped for better things as years would rise | B |
| But it is over as a tale once told | A |
| All fallen the blossom that no fruitage bore | C |
| All lost the present and the future time | D |
| All lost all lost the lapse that went before | C |
| So lost till death shut to the opened door | C |
| So lost from chime to everlasting chime | D |
| So cold and lost forever evermore | C |
Christina Rossetti
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