Who's Most Afraid Of Death?thou Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD CBEF F EG HII JK L| who's most afraid of death thou | A |
| art of him | B |
| utterly afraid i love of thee | C |
| beloved this | D |
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| and truly i would be | C |
| near when his scythe takes crisply the whim | B |
| of thy smoothness and mark the fainting | E |
| murdered petals with caving stem | F |
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| But of all most would i be one of them | F |
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| round the hurt heart which do so frailly cling | E |
| i who am but imperfect in my fear | G |
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| Or with thy mind against my mind to hear | H |
| nearing our hearts' irrevocable play | I |
| through the mysterious high futile day | I |
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| an enormous stride | J |
| and drawing thy mouth toward | K |
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| my mouth steer our lost bodies carefully downward | L |
E. E. Cummings
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