A Requiem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBA DECCED FGHHGI AJCCJANeobule being tired | A |
Far too tired to laugh or weep | B |
From the hours rosy and gray | C |
Hid her golden face away | C |
Neobule fain of sleep | B |
Slept at last as she desired | A |
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Neobule is it well | D |
That you haunt the hollow lands | E |
Where the poor dead people stray | C |
Ghostly pitiful and gray | C |
Plucking with their spectral hands | E |
Scentless blooms of asphodel | D |
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Neobule tired to death | F |
Of the flowers that I threw | G |
On her flower like fair feet | H |
Sighed for blossoms not so sweet | H |
Lunar roses pale and blue | G |
Lilies of the world beneath | I |
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Neobule ah too tired | A |
Of the dreams and days above | J |
Where the poor dead people stray | C |
Ghostly pitiful and gray | C |
Out of life and out of love | J |
Sleeps the sleep which she desired | A |
Ernest Dowson
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