Mortality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEDEFBFBGHGHIJI JKLKL| And we shall be changed And we shall be changed | A |
| Ye dainty mosses lichens grey | B |
| Pressed each to each in tender fold | C |
| And peacefully thus day by day | B |
| Returning to their mould | C |
| Brown leaves that with aerial grace | D |
| Slip from your branch like birds a wing | E |
| Each leaving in the appointed place | D |
| Its bud of future spring | E |
| If we God's conscious creatures knew | F |
| But half your faith in our decay | B |
| We should not tremble as we do | F |
| When summoned clay to clay | B |
| But with an equal patience sweet | G |
| We should put off this mortal gear | H |
| In whatsoe'er new form is meet | G |
| Content to reappear | H |
| Knowing each germ of life He gives | I |
| Must have in Him its source and rise | J |
| Being that of His being lives | I |
| May change but never dies | J |
| Ye dead leaves dropping soft and slow | K |
| Ye mosses green and lichens fair | L |
| Go to your graves as I will go | K |
| For God is also there | L |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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