I See Around Me Tombstones Grey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFGHHIIJJKKLL EMNOPPQQRRSSHHTTUUEE VWIIRR| I see around me tombstones grey | A |
| Stretching their shadows far away | A |
| Beneath the turf my footsteps tread | B |
| Lie low and lone the silent dead | B |
| Beneath the turf beneath the mould | C |
| Forever dark forever cold | C |
| And my eyes cannot hold the tears | D |
| That memory hoards from vanished years | E |
| For Time and Death and Mortal pain | F |
| Give wounds that will not heal again | G |
| Let me remember half the woe | H |
| I've seen and heard and felt below | H |
| And Heaven itself so pure and blest | I |
| Could never give my spirit rest | I |
| Sweet land of light thy children fair | J |
| Know nought akin to our despair | J |
| Nor have they felt nor can they tell | K |
| What tenants haunt each mortal cell | K |
| What gloomy guests we hold within | L |
| Torments and madness tears and sin | L |
| Well may they live in ectasy | E |
| Their long eternity of joy | M |
| At least we would not bring them down | N |
| With us to weep with us to groan | O |
| No Earth would wish no other sphere | P |
| To taste her cup of sufferings drear | P |
| She turns from Heaven with a careless eye | Q |
| And only mourns that we must die | Q |
| Ah mother what shall comfort thee | R |
| In all this boundless misery | R |
| To cheer our eager eyes a while | S |
| We see thee smile how fondly smile | S |
| But who reads not through that tender glow | H |
| Thy deep unutterable woe | H |
| Indeed no dazzling land above | T |
| Can cheat thee of thy children's love | T |
| We all in life's departing shine | U |
| Our last dear longings blend with thine | U |
| And struggle still and strive to trace | E |
| With clouded gaze thy darling face | E |
| We would not leave our native home | V |
| For any world beyond the Tomb | W |
| No rather on thy kindly breast | I |
| Let us be laid in lasting rest | I |
| Or waken but to share with thee | R |
| A mutual immortality | R |
Emily Bronte
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