Athanatos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACDCDAEFEFAAGGCHI IJJAACKLLMMAACCFFEEN N| Away with Death away | A |
| With all her sluggish sleeps and chilling damps | B |
| Impervious to the day | A |
| Where nature sinks into inanity | A |
| How can the soul desire | C |
| Such hateful nothingness to crave | D |
| And yield with joy the vital fire | C |
| To moulder in the grave | D |
| Yet mortal life is sad | A |
| Eternal storms molest its sullen sky | E |
| And sorrows ever rife | F |
| Drain the sacred fountain dry | E |
| Away with mortal life | F |
| But hail the calm reality | A |
| The seraph Immortality | A |
| Hail the heavenly bowers of peace | G |
| Where all the storms of passion cease | G |
| Wild life's dismaying struggle o'er | C |
| The wearied spirit weeps no more | H |
| But wears the eternal smile of joy | I |
| Tasting bliss without alloy | I |
| Welcome welcome happy bowers | J |
| Where no passing tempest lowers | J |
| But the azure heavens display | A |
| The everlasting smile of day | A |
| Where the choral seraph choir | C |
| Strike to praise the harmonious lyre | K |
| And the spirit sinks to ease | L |
| Lull'd by distant symphonies | L |
| Oh to think of meeting there | M |
| The friends whose graves received our tear | M |
| The daughter loved the wife adored | A |
| To our widow'd arms restored | A |
| And all the joys which death did sever | C |
| Given to us again for ever | C |
| Who would cling to wretched life | F |
| And hug the poison'd thorn of strife | F |
| Who would not long from earth to fly | E |
| A sluggish senseless lump to lie | E |
| When the glorious prospect lies | N |
| Full before his raptured eyes | N |
Henry Kirk White
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