Living: After A Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEEFFGGHIJKLLMM ANNOOPPQRSSTTUV ALLWWXXYYEE MMWWRR| O LIVE | A |
| Thus seems it we should say to our beloved | B |
| Each held by such slight links so oft removed | C |
| And I can let thee go to the world's end | D |
| All precious names companion love spouse friend | D |
| Seal up in an eternal silence gray | E |
| Like a closed grave till resurrection day | E |
| All sweet remembrances hopes dreams desires | F |
| Heap as one heaps up sarificial fires | F |
| Then turning consecrate by loss and proud | G |
| Of penury go back into the loud | G |
| Tumultuous world again with never a moan | H |
| Save that which whispers still 'My own my own ' | I |
| Unto the same broad sky whose arch immense | J |
| Enfolds us both like the arm of Providence | K |
| And thus contended I could live or die | L |
| With never clasp of hand or meeting eye | L |
| On this side Paradise While thee I see | M |
| Living to God thou art alive to me | M |
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| O live | A |
| And I methinks can let all dear rights go | N |
| Fond duties melt away like April snow | N |
| And sweet sweet hopes that took a life to weave | O |
| Vanish like gossamers of autumn eve | O |
| Nay sometimes seems it I could even bear | P |
| To lay down humbly this love crown I wear | P |
| Steal from my palace helpless hopeless poor | Q |
| And see another queen it at the door | R |
| If only that the king had done no wrong | S |
| If this my palace where I dwelt so long | S |
| Were not defiled by falsehood entering in | T |
| There is no loss but change no death but sin | T |
| No parting save the slow corrupting pain | U |
| Of murdered faith that never lives again | V |
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| O live | A |
| So endeth faint the low pathetic cry | L |
| Of love whom death has taught love cannot die | L |
| And I can stand above the daisy bed | W |
| The only pillow for thy dearest head | W |
| There cover up forever from my sight | X |
| My own my earthly all of earth delight | X |
| And enter the sea cave of widowed years | Y |
| Where far far off the trembling gleam appears | Y |
| Through which thy heavenly image slipped away | E |
| And waits to meet me at the open day | E |
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| Only to me my love only to me | M |
| This cavern underneath the moaning sea | M |
| This long long life that I alone must tread | W |
| To whom the living seem most like the dead | W |
| Thou wilt be safe out on the happy shore | R |
| He who in God lives liveth evermore | R |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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