Grief Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DEDEFEFE GFGFHIHI DIDIJKJK FBFBLMLM| As the funeral train with its honoured dead | A |
| On its mournful way went sweeping | B |
| While a sorrowful nation bowed its head | A |
| And the whole world joined in weeping | B |
| I thought as I looked on the solemn sight | C |
| Of the one fond heart despairing | B |
| And I said to myself as in truth I might | C |
| How sad must be this SHARING | B |
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| To share the living with even Fame | D |
| For a heart that is only human | E |
| Is hard when Glory asserts her claim | D |
| Like a bold insistent woman | E |
| Yet a great grand passion can put aside | F |
| Or stay each selfish emotion | E |
| And watch with a pleasure that springs from pride | F |
| Its rival the world's devotion | E |
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| But Death should render to love its own | G |
| And my heart bowed down and sorrowed | F |
| For the stricken woman who wept alone | G |
| While even her DEAD was borrowed | F |
| Borrowed from her the bride the wife | H |
| For the world's last martial honour | I |
| As she sat in the gloom of her darkened life | H |
| With her widow's grief fresh upon her | I |
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| He had shed the glory of Love and Fame | D |
| In a golden halo about her | I |
| She had shared his triumphs and worn his name | D |
| But alas he had died without her | I |
| He had wandered in many a distant realm | J |
| And never had left her behind him | K |
| But now with a spectral shape at the helm | J |
| He had sailed where she could not find him | K |
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| It was only a thought that came that day | F |
| In the midst of the muffled drumming | B |
| And funeral music and sad display | F |
| That I knew was right and becoming | B |
| Only a thought as the mourning train | L |
| Moved column after column | M |
| Bearing the dead to the burial plain | L |
| With a reverence grand as solemn | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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