If I Should Die. - Rondeau Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBA AABC AABBAC| If I should die how kind you all would grow | A |
| In that strange hour I would not have one foe | A |
| There are no words too beautiful to say | B |
| Of one who goes forevermore away | B |
| Across that ebbing tide which has no flow | A |
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| With what new lustre my good deeds would glow | A |
| If faults were mine no one would call them so | A |
| Or speak of me in aught but praise that day | B |
| If I should die | C |
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| Ah friends before my listening ear lies low | A |
| While I can hear and understand bestow | A |
| That gentle treatment and fond love I pray | B |
| The lustre of whose late though radiant way | B |
| Would gild my grave with mocking light I know | A |
| If I should die | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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