In A Swedish Graveyard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKAKA GIGIIBIB LMLMNONO PQPQEDED| After wearisome toil and much sorrow | A |
| How quietly sleep they at last | B |
| Neither dreading and fearing the morrow | A |
| Nor vainly bemoaning the past | B |
| Shall we give them our envy or pity | C |
| Shall we shun or yearn after such rest | D |
| So calm near the turbulent city | C |
| With their heart stilled at length in their breast | D |
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| They all sleep with their heads lying westward | E |
| Where all suns and all days have gone down | F |
| Do they long for the dawn looking eastward | E |
| Do they dream of the strife and the crown | F |
| Each one held a lit taper when dying | G |
| Where hath vanished the fugitive flame | H |
| With his love and his joy and his sighing | G |
| Alas and his youth and his name | H |
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| The living stands o'er him and dreameth | I |
| And wonders what dreams came to him | J |
| While the tender brief twilight still gleameth | I |
| With a light strangely mournful and dim | J |
| And he wonders what lights and what shadows | K |
| Passed over these dead long ago | A |
| When their feet now at rest trod these meadows | K |
| And their hearts throbbed to pleasure or woe | A |
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| What dreams came to them in their living | G |
| The self same that come now to thee | I |
| If thou findest those dreams are deceiving | G |
| Then these lives thou wilt know and wilt see | I |
| The same visions of love and of glory | I |
| The same vain regret for the past | B |
| All the same poor and pitiful story | I |
| Till the taper's extinguished at last | B |
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| All the treasures on earth that they cherished | L |
| Now they care not to clasp nor to save | M |
| And the poor little lights how they perished | L |
| Slowly dying alone in the grave | M |
| With a flickering faint on the features | N |
| Of age or of youth in its bloom | O |
| Lighting up for grim Death his weak creatures | N |
| In the darkness and night of the tomb | O |
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| With a radiance ghostly and mournful | P |
| On the good on the just and unjust | Q |
| For a space till the monarch so scornful | P |
| Turned the light and the lighted to dust | Q |
| No taper of earth he desired | E |
| In his halls where they quietly rest | D |
| For all those who have toiled and are tired | E |
| Utter darkness and sleep may be best | D |
Emma Lazarus
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