A Dirge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GADA GHIH GJKJ DALA MNKO| Death and a dirge at midnight | A |
| Yet never a soul in the house | B |
| Heard anything more than the throb and beat | C |
| Of a beautiful waltz of Strauss | B |
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| Dead dead dead and staring | D |
| With a ghastly smile on its face | E |
| But the world saw only laughing eyes | F |
| And roses and billows of lace | E |
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| Floating and whirling together | G |
| Into the beautiful night | A |
| How little you dreamed of the ghastly thing | D |
| I was hiding away from your sight | A |
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| Meeting your dark eyes' splendour | G |
| Feeling your warm sweet breath | H |
| How could you know that my passionate heart | I |
| Had died a horrible death | H |
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| Died in its fever and fervour | G |
| Died in its beautiful bloom | J |
| And that waltz of Strauss was a funeral dirge | K |
| Leading the way to the tomb | J |
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| But you held my hand at parting | D |
| And I smiled back a gay good night | A |
| And you never knew of the ghastly corpse | L |
| I was hiding away from your sight | A |
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| Yet whenever I hear the Danube | M |
| Under its pulsing strain | N |
| I catch the wail of the funeral dirge | K |
| And my heart dies over again | O |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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