The Mountain Cemetery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADB EFGEHF IGJIJG KLMKNL OPQRJP| With their harsh leaves old rhododendrons fill | A |
| The crevices in grave plots' broken stones | B |
| The bees renew the blossoms they destroy | C |
| While in the burning air the pines rise still | A |
| Commemorating long forgotten biers | D |
| Their roots replace the semblance of these bones | B |
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| The weight of cool of imperceptible dust | E |
| That came from nothing and to nothing came | F |
| Is light within the earth and on the air | G |
| The change that so renews itself is just | E |
| The enormous sundry platitude of death | H |
| Is for these bones bees trees and leaves the same | F |
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| And splayed upon the ground and through the trees | I |
| The mountains' shadow fills and cools the air | G |
| Smoothing the shape of headstones to the earth | J |
| The rhododendrons suffer with the bees | I |
| Whose struggles loose ripe petals to the earth | J |
| The heaviest burden it shall ever bear | G |
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| Our hard earned knowledge fits us for such sleep | K |
| Although the spring must come it passes too | L |
| To form the burden suffered for what comes | M |
| Whatever we would give our souls to keep | K |
| Is merely part of what we call the soul | N |
| What we of time would threaten to undo | L |
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| All time in its slow scrutiny has done | O |
| For on the grass that starts about the feet | P |
| The body's shadow turns to shape in time | Q |
| Soon grown preponderant with creeping shade | R |
| The final shadow that is turn of earth | J |
| And what seems won paid for as in defeat | P |
Edgar Bowers
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