A Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBCCDEDE FGHFGHEE IJKJKIKLEME NONNKOOKPPEEE| Though life should come | A |
| With all its marshalled honours trump and drum | A |
| To proffer you the captaincy of some | A |
| Resounding exploit that shall fill | B |
| Man's pulses with commemorative thrill | B |
| And be a banner to far battle days | C |
| For truths unrisen upon untrod ways | C |
| What would your answer be | D |
| O heart once brave | E |
| Seek otherwhere for me | D |
| I watch beside a grave | E |
| - | |
| Though to some shining festival of thought | F |
| The sages call you from steep citadel | G |
| Of bastioned argument whose rampart gained | H |
| Yields the pure vision passionately sought | F |
| In dreams known well | G |
| But never yet in wakefulness attained | H |
| How should you answer to their summons save | E |
| I watch beside a grave | E |
| - | |
| Though Beauty from her fane within the soul | I |
| Of fire tongued seers descending | J |
| Or from the dream lit temples of the past | K |
| With feet immortal wending | J |
| Illuminate grief's antre swart and vast | K |
| With half veiled face that promises the whole | I |
| To him who holds her fast | K |
| What answer could you give | L |
| Sight of one face I crave | E |
| One only while I live | M |
| Woo elsewhere for I watch beside a grave | E |
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| Though love of the one heart that loves you best | N |
| A storm tossed messenger | O |
| Should beat its wings for shelter in your breast | N |
| Where clung its last year's nest | N |
| The nest you built together and made fast | K |
| Lest envious winds should stir | O |
| And winged each delicate thought to minister | O |
| With sweetness far amassed | K |
| To the young dreams within | P |
| What answer could it win | P |
| The nest was whelmed in sorrow's rising wave | E |
| Nor could I reach one drowning dream to save | E |
| I watch beside a grave | E |
Edith Wharton
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