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 TNTN| I | 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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