Elegy, Occasioned By The Death Of Mr. Gill, Who Was Drowned In The River Trent, While Bathing, 9th A Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHGH IJIK LMLM NONO HPHP| He sunk the impetuous river roll'd along | A |
| The sullen wave betray'd his dying breath | B |
| And rising sad the rustling sedge among | C |
| The gale of evening touch'd the cords of death | B |
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| Nymph of the Trent why didst thou not appear | D |
| To snatch the victim from thy felon wave | E |
| Alas too late thou camest to embalm his bier | F |
| And deck with waterflags his early grave | E |
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| Triumphant riding o'er its tumid prey | G |
| Rolls the red stream in sanguinary pride | H |
| While anxious crowds in vain expectant stay | G |
| And ask the swoln corse from the murdering tide | H |
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| The stealing tear drop stagnates in the eye | I |
| The sudden sigh by friendship's bosom proved | J |
| I mark them rise I mark the general sigh | I |
| Unhappy youth and wert thou so beloved | K |
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| On thee as lone I trace the Trent's green brink | L |
| When the dim twilight slumbers on the glade | M |
| On thee my thoughts shall dwell nor Fancy shrink | L |
| To hold mysterious converse with thy shade | M |
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| Of thee as early I with vagrant feet | N |
| Hail the gray sandal'd morn in Colwick's vale | O |
| Of thee my sylvan reed shall warble sweet | N |
| And wild wood echoes shall repeat the tale | O |
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| And oh ye nymphs of P on who preside | H |
| O'er running rill and salutary stream | P |
| Guard ye in future well the halcyon tide | H |
| From the rude death shriek and the dying scream | P |
Henry Kirk White
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