A Monarch's Death-bed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGHIJIJ FDFDCKCK LMNMOPQP| A monarch on his death bed lay | A |
| Did censors waft perfume | B |
| And soft lamps pour their silvery ray | A |
| Thro' his proud chamber's gloom | B |
| He lay upon a greensward bed | C |
| Beneath a dark'ning sky | D |
| A lone tree waving o'er his head | C |
| A swift stream rolling by | D |
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| Had he then fall'n as warriors fall | E |
| Where spear strikes fire with spear | F |
| Was there a banner for his pall | G |
| A buckler for his bier | H |
| Not so nor cloven shields nor helms | I |
| Had strewn the bloody sod | J |
| Where he the helpless lord of realms | I |
| Yielded his soul to God | J |
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| Were there not friends with words of cheer | F |
| And princely vassals nigh | D |
| And priests the crucifix to rear | F |
| Before the glazing eye | D |
| A peasant girl that royal head | C |
| Upon her bosom laid | K |
| And shrinking not for woman's dread | C |
| The face of death survey'd | K |
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| Alone she sat from hill and wood | L |
| Red sank the mournful sun | M |
| Fast gush'd the fount of noble blood | N |
| Treason its worst had done | M |
| With her long hair she vainly press' | O |
| The wounds to staunch their tide | P |
| Unknown on that meek humble breast | Q |
| Imperial Albert died | P |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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