After Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CCDDEEFGHHIJJII KKLLMNOOL ILLAAPPKK| If we must part this parting is the best | A |
| How would you bear to lay | B |
| Your head on some warm pillow far away | B |
| Your head so used to lying on my breast | A |
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| But now your pillow is cold | C |
| Your hands have flowers and not my hands to hold | C |
| Upon our bed the worn bride linen lies | D |
| I have put the death money upon your eyes | D |
| So that you should not wake up in the night | E |
| I have bound your face with white | E |
| I have washed you yes with water and not with tears | F |
| Those arms wherein I have slept so many years | G |
| Those feet that hastened when they came to me | H |
| And all your body that belonged to me | H |
| I have smoothed your dear dull hair | I |
| And there is nothing left to say for you | J |
| And nothing left to fear or pray for you | J |
| And I have got the rest of life to bear | I |
| Thank God it is you not I who are lying there | I |
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| If I had died | K |
| And you had stood beside | K |
| This still white bed | L |
| Where the white scented horrible flowers are spread | L |
| I know the thing it is | M |
| And I thank God that He has spared you this | N |
| If one must bear it thank God it was I | O |
| Who had to live and bear to see you die | O |
| Who have to live and bear to see you dead | L |
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| You will have nothing of it all to bear | I |
| You will not even know that in your bed | L |
| You lie alone You will not miss my head | L |
| Beside you on the pillow you will rest | A |
| So soft in the grave you will not miss my breast | A |
| But I but I Your pillow and your place | P |
| And only the darkness laid against my face | P |
| And only my anguish pressed against my side | K |
| Thank God thank God that it was you who died | K |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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