Imploring To Be Resigned At Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CBCBB DBDBB EBEBB FBGBB| Let me die and not tremble at death | A |
| But smile at the close of my day | B |
| And then at the flight of my breath | A |
| Like a bird of the morning in May | B |
| Go chanting away | B |
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| Let me die without fear of the dead | C |
| No horrors my soul shall dismay | B |
| And with faith's pillow under my head | C |
| With defiance to mortal decay | B |
| Go chanting away | B |
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| Let me die like a son of the brave | D |
| And martial distinction display | B |
| Nor shrink from a thought of the grave | D |
| No but with a smile from the clay | B |
| Go chanting away | B |
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| Let me die glad regardless of pain | E |
| No pang to this world to betray | B |
| And the spirit cut loose from its chain | E |
| So loath in the flesh to delay | B |
| Go chanting away | B |
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| Let me die and my worst foe forgive | F |
| When death veils the last vital ray | B |
| Since I have but a moment to live | G |
| Let me when the last debt I pay | B |
| Go chanting away | B |
George Moses Horton
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