On The Death Of Dermody The Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDE FGEHGAG CIJJIAI KLMMLNL OPQQPAP RSTTSCS HLUULAL| Child of Misfortune Offspring of the Muse | A |
| Mark like the meteor's gleam his mad career | B |
| With hollow cheeks and haggard eye | C |
| Behold he shrieking passes by | C |
| I see I see him near | B |
| That hollow scream that deepening groan | D |
| It rings upon mine ear | E |
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| Oh come ye thoughtless ye deluded youth | F |
| Who clasp the syren pleasure to your breast | G |
| Behold the wreck of genius here | E |
| And drop oh drop the silent tear | H |
| For Dermody at rest | G |
| His fate is yours then from your loins | A |
| Tear quick the silken vest | G |
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| Saw'st thou his dying bed Saw'st thou his eye | C |
| Once flashing fire despair's dim tear distil | I |
| How ghastly did it seem | J |
| And then his dying scream | J |
| Oh God I hear it still | I |
| It sounds upon my fainting sense | A |
| It strikes with deathly chill | I |
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| Say didst thou mark the brilliant poet's death | K |
| Saw'st thou an anxious father by his bed | L |
| Or pitying friends around him stand | M |
| Or didst thou see a mother's hand | M |
| Support his languid head | L |
| Oh none of these no friend o'er him | N |
| The balm of pity shed | L |
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| Now come around ye flippant sons of wealth | O |
| Sarcastic smile on genius fallen low | P |
| Now come around who pant for fame | Q |
| And learn from hence a poet's name | Q |
| Is purchased but by woe | P |
| And when ambition prompts to rise | A |
| Oh think of him below | P |
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| For me poor moralizer I will run | R |
| Dejected to some solitary state | S |
| The muse has set her seal on me | T |
| She set her seal on Dermody | T |
| It is the seal of fate | S |
| In some lone spot my bones may lie | C |
| Secure from human hate | S |
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| Yet ere I go I'll drop one silent tear | H |
| Where lies unwept the poet's fallen head | L |
| May peace her banners o'er him wave | U |
| For me in my deserted grave | U |
| No friend a tear shall shed | L |
| Yet may the lily and the rose | A |
| Bloom on my grassy bed | L |
Henry Kirk White
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