When I Have Passed Away Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF| When I have passed away and am forgotten | A |
| And no one living can recall my face | B |
| When under alien sod my bones lie rotten | A |
| With not a tree or stone to mark the place | B |
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| Perchance a pensive youth with passion burning | C |
| For olden verse that smacks of love and wine | D |
| The musty pages of old volumes turning | C |
| May light upon a little song of mine | D |
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| And he may softly hum the tune and wonder | E |
| Who wrote the verses in the long ago | F |
| Or he may sit him down awhile to ponder | E |
| Upon the simple words that touch him so | F |
Claude Mckay
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