Dirge Without Music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGHIJFH KBKB| I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground | A |
| So it is and so it will be for so it has been time out of mind | B |
| Into the darkness they go the wise and the lovely Crowned | A |
| With lilies and with laurel they go but I am not resigned | B |
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| Lovers and thinkers into the earth with you | C |
| Be one with the dull the indiscriminate dust | D |
| A fragment of what you felt of what you knew | C |
| A formula a phrase remains mdash but the best is lost | E |
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| The answers quick and keen the honest look the laughter the | F |
| love mdash | G |
| They are gone They are gone to feed the roses Elegant and curled | H |
| Is the blossom Fragrant is the blossom I know But I do not | I |
| approve | J |
| More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the | F |
| world | H |
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| Down down down into the darkness of the grave | K |
| Gently they go the beautiful the tender the kind | B |
| Quietly they go the intelligent the witty the brave | K |
| I know But I do not approve And I am not resigned | B |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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