Daniel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEF GEHIJKLM ENOPQRS TEFUVWHXYZ A2B2MC2D2E2F2XG2H2I2 BCDEFJ2K2L2H2 M2N2O2P2Q2R2ES2T2FU2 BCDEFV2W2H2X2Y2Z2HH2 V2EF2S2PA3YZXB3C3S2D 3HA3I2H2 BCDEF BE3F3ECG3V2H3I3| Written at the grave of an old friend | A |
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| Down into the darkness at last Daniel down into the darkness at last | B |
| Laid in the lap of our Mother Daniel sleeping the dreamless sleep | C |
| Sleeping the sleep of the babe unborn the pure and the perfect rest | D |
| Aye and is it not better than this fitful fever and pain | E |
| Aye and is it not better if only the dead soul knew | F |
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| Joy was there in the spring time and hope like a blossoming rose | G |
| When the wine blood of youth ran tingling and throbbing in every vein | E |
| Chirrup of robin and blue bird in the white blossomed apple and pear | H |
| Carpets of green on the meadows spangled with dandelions | I |
| Lowing of kine in the valleys bleating of lambs on the hills | J |
| Babble of brooks and the prattle of fountains that flashed in the sun | K |
| Glad merry voices ripples of laughter snatches of music and song | L |
| And blue eyed girls in the gardens that blushed like the roses they wore | M |
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| And life was a pleasure unvexed unmingled with sorrow and pain | E |
| A round of delight from the blink of morn | N |
| till the moon rose laughing at night | O |
| Nay there were cares and cankers envy and hunger and hate | P |
| Death and disease in the pith of the limbs | Q |
| in the root and the bud and the branch | R |
| Dry rot alas at the heart and a canker worm gnawing therein | S |
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| The summer of life came on with its heat and its struggle and toil | T |
| Sweat of the brow and the soul throbbing of muscle and brain | E |
| Toil and moil and grapple with Fortune clutched as she flew | F |
| Only a shred of her robe and a brave heart baffled and bowed | U |
| Stern visaged Fate with a hand of iron uplifted to fell | V |
| The secret stab of a friend that stung like the sting of an asp | W |
| Wringing red drops from the soul and a stifled moan of despair | H |
| The loose lips of gossip and then a storm of slander and lies | X |
| Till Justice was blind as a bat and deaf to the cries of the just | Y |
| And Mercy wrapped up in her robe stood by like a statue in stone | Z |
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| Sear autumn followed the summer with frost and the falling of leaves | A2 |
| And red ripe apples that blushed on the hills in the orchard of peace | B2 |
| Red ripe apples alas with worms writhing down to the core | M |
| Apples of ashes and fungus that fell into rot at a touch | C2 |
| Clusters of grapes in the garden blighted and sour on the vines | D2 |
| Wheat fields that waved in the valley and promised a harvest of gold | E2 |
| Thrashing but chaff and weevil or cockle and shriveled cheat | F2 |
| Fair was the promise of spring time the harvest a harvest of lies | X |
| Fair was the promise of summer with Fortune clutched by the robe | G2 |
| Fair was the promise of autumn a hollow harlot in red | H2 |
| A withered rose at her girdle and the thorns of the rose in her hand | I2 |
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| Down into the darkness at last Daniel down into the darkness at last | B |
| Laid in the lap of our Mother Daniel sleeping the dreamless sleep | C |
| Sleeping the sleep of the babe unborn the pure and the perfect rest | D |
| Aye and is it not better than this fitful fever and pain | E |
| Aye and is it not better if only the dead soul knew | F |
| Dead Ashes what do you care if it storm if it shine if it shower | J2 |
| Hail storm tornado or tempest or the blinding blizzard of snow | K2 |
| Or the mid May showers on the blossoms with the glad sun blinking between | L2 |
| Dead Ashes what do you care they break not the sleep of the dead | H2 |
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| Proud stands the ship to the sea fair breezes belly her sails | M2 |
| Strong masted stanch in her shrouds stanch in her beams and her bones | N2 |
| Bound for Hesperian isles for the isles of the plantain and palm | O2 |
| Hope walks her deck with a smile and Confidence stands at the helm | P2 |
| Proudly she turns to the sea and walks like a queen on the waves | Q2 |
| Caught in the grasp of the tempest lashed by the fiends of the storm | R2 |
| Torn into shreds are her sails tumbled her masts to the main | E |
| Rudderless rolling she drives and groans in the grasp of the sea | S2 |
| Harbor or hope there is none she goes to her grave in the brine | T2 |
| Dead in the fathomless slime lie the bones of the ship and her crew | F |
| Such was the promise of life so is the promise fulfilled | U2 |
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| Down into the darkness at last Daniel down into the darkness at last | B |
| Laid in the lap of our Mother Daniel sleeping the dreamless sleep | C |
| Sleeping the sleep of the babe unborn the pure and the perfect rest | D |
| Aye and is it not better than this fitful fever and pain | E |
| Aye and is it not better if only the dead soul knew | F |
| Over your grave the tempest may roar or the zephyr sigh | V2 |
| Over your grave the blue bells may blink or the snow drifts whirl | W2 |
| Dead Ashes what do you care they break not the sleep of the dead | H2 |
| They that were friends may mourn they that were friends may praise | X2 |
| They that knew you and yet knew you never may cavil and blame | Y2 |
| They that were foes in disguise may strike at you down in the grave | Z2 |
| Slander the scavenger buzzard may vomit her lies on you there | H |
| Dead Ashes what do you care they break not the sleep of the dead | H2 |
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| The hoarse low voice of the years croaks on forever and aye | V2 |
| Change Change Change and the winters wax and wane | E |
| The old oak dies in the forest the acorn sprouts at its feet | F2 |
| The sea gnaws on at the land the continent crowds on the sea | S2 |
| Bound to the Ixion wheel with brazen fetters of fate | P |
| Man rises up from the dust and falls to the dust again | A3 |
| God washes our eyes with tears and still they are blinded with dust | Y |
| We grope in the dark and marvel and pray to the Power unknown | Z |
| Crying for help to the desert not even an echo replies | X |
| Doomed unto death like the moon like the midget that men call man | B3 |
| Wrinkled with age and agony the old Earth rolls her rounds | C3 |
| Shrinking and shuddering she rolls an atom in God's great sea | S2 |
| Only an atom of dust in the infinite ocean of space | D3 |
| What to him are the years who sleeps in her bosom there | H |
| What to him is the cry wrung out of the souls of men | A3 |
| Change Change Change and the sea gnaws on at the land | I2 |
| Dead Ashes what do you care it breaks not the sleep of the dead | H2 |
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| Down into the darkness at last Daniel down into the darkness at last | B |
| Laid in the lap of our Mother Daniel sleeping the dreamless sleep | C |
| Sleeping the sleep of the babe unborn the pure and the perfect rest | D |
| Aye and is it not better than this fitful fever and pain | E |
| Aye and is it not better if only the dead soul knew | F |
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| Up out of the darkness at last Daniel out of the darkness at last | B |
| Into the light of the life eternal into the sunlight of God | E3 |
| Singing the song of the soul immortal freed from the fetters of flesh | F3 |
| Aye and is it not better than this fitful fever and pain | E |
| Aye and is it not better than sleeping the dreamless sleep | C |
| Hark from the reel of the spheres eternal | G3 |
| the freed soul answereth Aye | V2 |
| Aye Aye Aye it is better brothers | H3 |
| if it be but the dream of the famished soul | I3 |
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