Love's Burial Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FG HH II CC JJ KK CC| Let us clear a little space | A |
| And make Love a burial place | A |
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| He is dead dear as you see | B |
| And he wearies you and me | B |
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| Growing heavier day by day | C |
| Let us bury him I say | C |
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| Wings of dead white butterflies | D |
| These shall shroud him as he lies | D |
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| In his casket rich and rare | E |
| Made of finest maiden hair | E |
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| With the pollen of the rose | F |
| Let us his white eyelids close | G |
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| Put the rose thorn in his hand | H |
| Shorn of leaves you understand | H |
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| Let some holy water fall | I |
| On his dead face tears of gall | I |
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| As we kneel to him and say | C |
| Dreams to dreams and turn away | C |
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| Those gravediggers Doubt Distrust | J |
| They will lower him to the dust | J |
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| Let us part here with a kiss | K |
| You go that way I go this | K |
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| Since we buried Love to day | C |
| We will walk a separate way | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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