On Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIBB JKLL MMNN OONN| Deceitful worm that undermines the clay | A |
| Which slyly steals the thoughtless soul away | A |
| Pervading neighborhoods with sad surprise | B |
| Like sudden storms of wind and thunder rise | B |
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| The sounding death watch lurks within the wall | C |
| Away some unsuspecting soul to call | C |
| The pendant willow droops her waving head | D |
| And sighing zephyrs whisper of the dead | D |
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| Methinks I hear the doleful midnight knell | E |
| Some parting spirit bids the world farewell | E |
| The taper burns as conscious of distress | F |
| And seems to show the living number less | F |
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| Must a lov'd daughter from her father part | G |
| And grieve for one who lies so near her heart | G |
| And must she for the fatal loss bemoan | H |
| Or faint to hear his last departing groan | H |
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| Methinks I see him speechless gaze awhile | I |
| And on her drop his last paternal smile | I |
| With gushing tears closing his humid eyes | B |
| The last pulse beats and in her arms he dies | B |
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| With pallid cheeks she lingers round his bier | J |
| And heaves a farewell sigh with every tear | K |
| With sorrow she consigns him to the dust | L |
| And silent owns the fatal sentence just | L |
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| Still her sequestered mother seems to weep | M |
| And spurns the balm which constitutes her sleep | M |
| Her plaintive murmurs float upon the gale | N |
| And almost make the stubborn rocks bewail | N |
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| O what is like the awful breach of death | O |
| Whose fatal stroke invades the creature's breath | O |
| It bids the voice of desolation roll | N |
| And strikes the deepest awe within the bravest soul | N |
George Moses Horton
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