All Souls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEF DG HIDDJK L JHMNOPJJ D| They are chanting now the service of All the Dead | A |
| And the village folk outside in the burying ground | B |
| Listen except those who strive with their dead | A |
| Reaching out in anguish yet unable quite to touch them | C |
| Those villagers isolated at the grave | D |
| Where the candles burn in the daylight and the painted wreaths | E |
| Are propped on end there where the mystery starts | F |
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| The naked candles burn on every grave | D |
| On your grave in England the weeds grow | G |
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| But I am your naked candle burning | H |
| And that is not your grave in England | I |
| The world is your grave | D |
| And my naked body standing on your grave | D |
| Upright towards heaven is burning off to you | J |
| Its flame of life now and always till the end | K |
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| It is my offering to you every day is All Souls' Day | L |
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| I forget you have forgotten you | J |
| I am busy only at my burning | H |
| I am busy only at my life | M |
| But my feet are on your grave planted | N |
| And when I lift my face it is a flame that goes up | O |
| To the other world where you are now | P |
| But I am not concerned with you | J |
| I have forgotten you | J |
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| I am a naked candle burning on your grave | D |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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