The Dying Queen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF HIJI KAFA LMNM OPIP QARA| I would meet death awake | A |
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| The strength that bore her on for years | B |
| Was ebbing fast away | C |
| And o'er the pale and life p worn face | D |
| Death's solemn shadows lay | C |
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| With tender love and gentle care | E |
| Friends gathered round her bed | F |
| And for her sake each footfall hushed | G |
| The echoes of its tread | F |
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| They knew the restlessness of death | H |
| Through every nerve did creep | I |
| And carefully they tried to lull | J |
| The dying Queen to sleep | I |
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| In vain she felt Death's icy hand | K |
| Her failing heart strings shake | A |
| And rousing up she firmly said | F |
| I'd meet my God awake | A |
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| Awake I've met the battle's shock | L |
| And born the cares of state | M |
| Nor shall I take your lethean cup | N |
| And slumber at death's gate | M |
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| Did I not watch with eyes alert | O |
| The path where foes did tend | P |
| And shall I veil my eyes with sleep | I |
| To meet my God and friend | P |
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| Nay rather from my weary lids | Q |
| This heavy slumber shake | A |
| That I may pass the mystic vale | R |
| And meet my God awake | A |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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