To A Butterfly Resting Upon A Skull Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCD EFEGCCG HIHIJJI| Creature of air and light | A |
| Emblem of that which cannot die | B |
| Wilt thou not speed thy flight | A |
| To chase the south wind through the sunny sky | B |
| What lures thee thus to stay | C |
| With silence and decay | C |
| Fix'd on the wreck of dull mortality | D |
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| The thoughts once chamber'd there | E |
| Have gather'd up their treasures and are gone | F |
| Will the dust tell us where | E |
| They that have burst the prison house are flown | G |
| Rise nursling of the day | C |
| If thou wouldst trace their way | C |
| Earth has no voice to make the secret known | G |
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| Who seeks the vanish'd bird | H |
| By the forsaken nest and broken shell | I |
| Far hence he sings unheard | H |
| Yet free and joyous 'midst the woods to dwell | I |
| Thou of the sunshine born | J |
| Take the bright wings of morn | J |
| Thy hope calls heavenward from yon ruin'd cell | I |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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