A Burial Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHJ KLKL MDMD NONO| Today I had a burial of my dead | A |
| There was no shroud no coffin and no pall | B |
| No prayers were uttered and no tears were shed | A |
| I only turned a picture to the wall | C |
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| A picture that had hung within my room | D |
| For years and years a relic of my youth | E |
| It kept the rose of love in constant bloom | D |
| To see those eyes of earnestness and truth | E |
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| At hours wherein no other dared intrude | F |
| I had drawn comfort from its smiling grace | G |
| Silent companion of my solitude | F |
| My soul held sweet communion with that face | G |
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| I lived again the dream so bright so brief | H |
| Though wakened as we all are by some Fate | I |
| This picture gave me infinite relief | H |
| And did not leave me wholly desolate | J |
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| To day I saw an item quite by chance | K |
| That robbed me of my pitiful poor dole | L |
| A marriage notice fell beneath my glance | K |
| And I became a lonely widowed soul | L |
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| With drooping eyes and cheeks a burning flame | M |
| I turned the picture to the blank wall's gloom | D |
| My very heart had died in me of shame | M |
| If I had left it smiling in my room | D |
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| Another woman's husband So my friend | N |
| My comfort my sole relic of the past | O |
| I bury thee and lonely seek the end | N |
| Swift age has swept my youth from me at last | O |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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