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

IA
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How shall the burial rite be readB
The solemn song be sungC
The requiem for the loveliest deadB
That ever died so youngC
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IIA
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Her friends are gazing on herD
And on her gaudy bierE
And weep oh to dishonorD
Dead beauty with a tearF
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IIIA
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They loved her for her wealthG
And they hated her for her prideH
But she grew in feeble healthG
And they love her that she diedH
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IVI
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They tell me while they speakJ
Of her costly broider'd pallK
That my voice is growing weakJ
That I should not sing at allL
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VI
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Or that my tone should beI
Tun'd to such solemn songM
So mournfully so mournfullyL
That the dead may feel no wrongM
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VII
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But she is gone aboveI
With young Hope at her sideH
And I am drunk with loveI
Of the dead who is my brideH
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VIII
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Of the dead dead who liesN
All perfum'd thereF
With the death upon her eyesN
And the life upon her hairF
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VIIII
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Thus on the coffin loud and longM
I strike the murmur sentO
Through the gray chambers to my songM
Shall be the accompanimentP
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IXN
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Thou diedst in thy life's JuneQ
But thou didst not die too fairF
Thou didst not die too soonQ
Nor with too calm an airF
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XN
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From more than friends on earthR
Thy life and love are rivenS
To join the untainted mirthR
Of more than thrones in heavenS
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XIN
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Therefore to thee this nightT
I will no requiem raiseN
But waft thee on thy flightT
With a Paean of old daysN

Edgar Allan Poe



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