A Grave By The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDBCEFEGEFG EEHIEHI JJKEJKE LLMNLMN| No white cloud sails the lonely sky | A |
| Thro the gaunt trees no breezes sigh | A |
| Thro the lush grass no fall of feet | B |
| No song of bird in all the land | C |
| But floating faintly dreamily | D |
| The distant dirge of waves that beat | B |
| In discontent upon the sand | C |
| Here where all Nature seems aswoon | E |
| Time languid as a summer stream | F |
| Drifts down the sweet soft afternoon | E |
| And Death discrowned of terror brings | G |
| Surcease to souls that wake not soon | E |
| And casts above Life s fevered dream | F |
| Cool shadows of Immortal Wings | G |
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| Here by the old graves overgrown | E |
| A bare mound without wreath or stone | E |
| Marks where he sleeps mid grasses long | H |
| Who sought not things that others seek | I |
| Who fought in silence and alone | E |
| Who in his weakness was so strong | H |
| And in his strength so weak | I |
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| The shining years shall glide and go | J |
| The human tides shall ebb and flow | J |
| And Love make sweet the days to be | K |
| And Death make smooth the brow of pain | E |
| But no such heart again shall glow | J |
| And no such friend shall come to me | K |
| Thro all the cycles that remain | E |
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| Some pass and perish with their breath | L |
| He liveth yet and quickeneth | L |
| As scent of roses on the wind | M |
| Recalls the bygone summer s day | N |
| He leaves this side the seas of Death | L |
| The fragrance of a noble mind | M |
| He dies but passes not away | N |
George Essex Evans
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