Until Her Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBA DEED A FGGF H IJJI H FKKF H LMML H NHHN| I | A |
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| UNTIL her death ' the words read strange yet real | B |
| Like things afar off suddenly brought near | C |
| Will it be slow or speedy full of fear | C |
| Or calm as a spent day of peace ideal | B |
| II | A |
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| Will her brown locks lie white on coffin pillow | D |
| Will these her eyes that sometime were called sweet | E |
| Close after years of dried up tears or meet | E |
| Death's dust in midst of weeping And that billow | D |
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| III | A |
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| Her restless heart will it be stopped still heaving | F |
| Or softly ebb 'neath age's placid breath | G |
| Will it be lonely this mysterious death | G |
| Fit close unto her solitary living | F |
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| IV | H |
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| A turning of her face to the wall nought spoken | I |
| Exchanging this world's light for heaven's or will | J |
| She part in pain from warm love to the chill | J |
| Unknown pursued with cries of hearts half broken | I |
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| V | H |
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| With fond lips felt through the blind mists of dying | F |
| And close arms clung to in the struggle vain | K |
| Or these all past will death to her be gain | K |
| Unto her life's long question God's replying | F |
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| VI | H |
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| No more Within his hand divine as tender | L |
| He holds the mystic measure of her days | M |
| And be they few or many His the praise | M |
| In life or death her Keeper and Defender | L |
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| VII | H |
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| Then come He soon or late she will not fear Him | N |
| Be her end lone or loveful she'll not grieve | H |
| For He whom she believed in doth believe | H |
| Will call her from the dust and she will hear Him | N |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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