In The Valley Of The Waters We Wept O'er The Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFAAGGHHIIJJ KKLMNN| When some proud son of man returns to earth | A |
| Unknown to glory but upheld by birth | A |
| The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe | B |
| And storied urns record who rest below | B |
| When all is done upon the tomb is seen | C |
| Not what he was but what he should have been | D |
| But the poor dog in life the firmest friend | E |
| The first to welcome foremost to defend | E |
| Whose honest heart is still his master's own | F |
| Who labours fights lives breathes for him alone | F |
| Unhonour'd falls unnoticed all his worth | A |
| Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth | A |
| While man vain insect hopes to be forgiven | G |
| And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven | G |
| Oh man thou feeble tenant of an hour | H |
| Debased by slavery or corrupt by power | H |
| Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust | I |
| Degraded mass of animated dust | I |
| Thy love is lust thy friendship all a cheat | J |
| Thy smiles hypocrisy thy words deceit | J |
| By nature vile ennobled but by name | K |
| Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame | K |
| Ye who perchance behold this simple urn | L |
| Pass on it honours none you wish to mourn | M |
| To mark a friend's remains these stones arise | N |
| I never knew but one and here he lies | N |
George Gordon Byron
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