A Pæan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC A DEDF A GHGH I JKJL I IMLM I IHIH I NFNF I MOMP N QFQF N RSRS N TNTNI | A |
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How shall the burial rite be read | B |
The solemn song be sung | C |
The requiem for the loveliest dead | B |
That ever died so young | C |
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II | A |
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Her friends are gazing on her | D |
And on her gaudy bier | E |
And weep oh to dishonor | D |
Dead beauty with a tear | F |
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III | A |
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They loved her for her wealth | G |
And they hated her for her pride | H |
But she grew in feeble health | G |
And they love her that she died | H |
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IV | I |
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They tell me while they speak | J |
Of her costly broider'd pall | K |
That my voice is growing weak | J |
That I should not sing at all | L |
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V | I |
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Or that my tone should be | I |
Tun'd to such solemn song | M |
So mournfully so mournfully | L |
That the dead may feel no wrong | M |
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VI | I |
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But she is gone above | I |
With young Hope at her side | H |
And I am drunk with love | I |
Of the dead who is my bride | H |
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VII | I |
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Of the dead dead who lies | N |
All perfum'd there | F |
With the death upon her eyes | N |
And the life upon her hair | F |
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VIII | I |
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Thus on the coffin loud and long | M |
I strike the murmur sent | O |
Through the gray chambers to my song | M |
Shall be the accompaniment | P |
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IX | N |
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Thou diedst in thy life's June | Q |
But thou didst not die too fair | F |
Thou didst not die too soon | Q |
Nor with too calm an air | F |
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X | N |
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From more than friends on earth | R |
Thy life and love are riven | S |
To join the untainted mirth | R |
Of more than thrones in heaven | S |
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XI | N |
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Therefore to thee this night | T |
I will no requiem raise | N |
But waft thee on thy flight | T |
With a Paean of old days | N |
Edgar Allan Poe
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