When Underneath The Brown Dead Grass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH CICIAHAH JKLKMNMN| When underneath the brown dead grass | A |
| My weary bones are laid | B |
| I hope I shall not see the glass | A |
| At ninety in the shade | B |
| I trust indeed that when I lie | C |
| Beneath the churchyard pine | D |
| I shall not hear that startling cry | C |
| Thermom is ninety nine | D |
| If one should whisper through my sleep | E |
| Come up and be alive | F |
| I d answer No unless you ll keep | E |
| The glass at sixty five | F |
| I might be willing if allowed | G |
| To wear old Adam s rig | H |
| And mix amongst the city crowd | G |
| Like Polynesian nig | H |
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| Far better in the sod to lie | C |
| With pasturing pig above | I |
| Than broil beneath a copper sky | C |
| In sight of all I love | I |
| Far better to be turned to grass | A |
| To feed the poley cow | H |
| Than be the half boiled bream alas | A |
| That I am really now | H |
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| For cow and pig I would not hear | J |
| And hoof I would not see | K |
| But if these items did appear | L |
| They wouldn t trouble me | K |
| For ah the pelt of mortal man | M |
| Weighs less than half a ton | N |
| And any sight is better than | M |
| A sultry southern sun | N |
Henry Kendall
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