Requiem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJKL MNNM| NOW veiled in the inviolable past | A |
| Love lies asleep who never more will wake | B |
| Nor would you wake him even for my sake | B |
| Who for your sake pray he sleep sound at last | A |
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| What good thing had we of him we who bore | C |
| So long his yoke what pleasant thing had we | D |
| That we should weep his deathlong sleep to see | D |
| Or call on Life to waken him once more | C |
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| A little joy he gave and much of pain | E |
| A little pleasure and enduring grief | F |
| One flower of joy and pain piled sheaf on sheaf | F |
| Harvests of loss for every bud of gain | E |
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| Yet where he lies in this deserted place | G |
| Divided by his narrow grave we sit | H |
| Welded together by the depths of it | H |
| Watching the years pass with averted face | G |
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| We do not mourn for him for here is peace | I |
| The old unrest frets not these empty years | J |
| With him went smiles a few and many tears | K |
| And peace is sweeter far than those or these | L |
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| Only we owe him nothing If he gave | M |
| We too gave gifts his gifts were less than ours | N |
| We gave the world that held so many flowers | N |
| For this the world that only holds his grave | M |
Edith Nesbit
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