A Ballad Of Past Meridian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCC A EFEFF A AGAGG| I | A |
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| Last night returning from my twilight walk | B |
| I met the grey mist Death whose eyeless brow | C |
| Was bent on me and from his hand of chalk | D |
| He reached me flowers as from a withered bough | C |
| O Death what bitter nosegays givest thou | C |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| Death said I gather and pursued his way | E |
| Another stood by me a shape in stone | F |
| Sword hacked and iron stained with breasts of clay | E |
| And metal veins that sometimes fiery shone | F |
| O Life how naked and how hard when known | F |
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| III | A |
| - | |
| Life said As thou hast carved me such am I | A |
| Then memory like the nightjar on the pine | G |
| And sightless hope a woodlark in night sky | A |
| Joined notes of Death and Life till night's decline | G |
| Of Death of Life those inwound notes are mine | G |
George Meredith
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