Quiet Dead! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FCFC DGEH IJIJ KLKL KMKK ANAN KOKO PQPQ PRPR| Quiet quiet dead | A |
| Have ye aught to say | B |
| From your hidden bed | A |
| In the earthy clay | B |
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| Fathers children mothers | C |
| Ye are very quiet | D |
| Can ye shout my brothers | C |
| I would know you by it | E |
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| Have ye any words | F |
| That are like to ours | C |
| Have ye any birds | F |
| Have ye any flowers | C |
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| Could ye rise a minute | D |
| When the sun is warm | G |
| I would know you in it | E |
| I would take no harm | H |
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| I am half afraid | I |
| In the ghostly night | J |
| If ye all obeyed | I |
| I should fear you quite | J |
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| But when day is breaking | K |
| In the purple east | L |
| I would meet you waking | K |
| One of you at least | L |
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| When the sun is tipping | K |
| Every stony block | M |
| And the sun is slipping | K |
| Down the weathercock | K |
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| Quiet quiet dead | A |
| I will not perplex you | N |
| What my tongue hath said | A |
| Haply it may vex you | N |
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| Yet I hear you speaking | K |
| With a quiet speech | O |
| As if ye were seeking | K |
| Better things to teach | O |
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| Wait a little longer | P |
| Suffer and endure | Q |
| Till your heart is stronger | P |
| And your eyes are pure | Q |
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| A little longer brother | P |
| With your fellow men | R |
| We will meet each other | P |
| Otherwhere again | R |
George Macdonald
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