Sonnet To Consumption Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDEDFF| Gently most gently on thy victim's head | A |
| Consumption lay thine hand let me decay | B |
| Like the expiring lamp unseen away | B |
| And softly go to slumber with the dead | A |
| And if 'tis true what holy men have said | A |
| That strains angelic oft foretell the day | B |
| Of death to those good men who fall thy prey | B |
| O let the a euml rial music round my bed | A |
| Dissolving sad in dying symphony | C |
| Whisper the solemn warning in mine ear | D |
| That I may bid my weeping friends good by | E |
| Ere I depart upon my journey drear | D |
| And smiling faintly on the painful past | F |
| Compose my decent head and breathe my last | F |
Henry Kirk White
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