Threnody Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACBADEDFFE| O ye who claim to be our loyal friends | A |
| Come now and build for us a funeral pyre | B |
| And lay our emptied bodies on the fire | B |
| Pray for our souls murmur your sad amens | A |
| And while the gold and scarlet flame ascends | A |
| Let he who best can play upon the lyre | C |
| Pluck slow regretful notes of deep desire | B |
| Sing subtle songs of love that never ends | A |
| and when at last the embers growing cold | D |
| Gather ye up our ashes in an urn | E |
| Of porphyry and seek a forest old | D |
| There underneath some vast and mighty oak | F |
| choose ye our grave spread over us a cloak | F |
| Of woven violets and filmy fern | E |
Harry Crosby
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