Stanzas, Supposed To Have Been Written At The Grave Of Henry Kirke White, By A Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFEFGG HDHCDB IJIJCD BKBKLL| Ye gentlest gales oh hither waft | A |
| On airy undulating sweeps | B |
| Your frequent sighs so passing soft | A |
| Where he the youthful Poet sleeps | B |
| He breathed the purest tenderest sigh | C |
| The sigh of sensibility | D |
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| And thou shalt lie his favourite flower | E |
| Pale primrose on his grave reclined | F |
| Sweet emblem of his fleeting hour | E |
| And of his pure his spotless mind | F |
| Like thee he sprung in lowly vale | G |
| And felt like thee the trying gale | G |
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| Nor hence thy pensive eye seclude | H |
| O thou the fragrant rosemary | D |
| Where he in marble solitude | H |
| So peaceful and so deep doth lie | C |
| His harp prophetic sung to thee | D |
| In notes of sweetest minstrelsy | B |
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| Ye falling dews Oh ever leave | I |
| Your crystal drops these flowers to steep | J |
| At earliest morn at latest eve | I |
| Oh let them for their poet weep | J |
| For tears bedew'd his gentle eye | C |
| The tears of heavenly sympathy | D |
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| Thou western Sun effuse thy beams | B |
| for he was wont to pace the glade | K |
| To watch in pale uncertain gleams | B |
| The crimson zoned horizon fade | K |
| Thy last they setting radiance pour | L |
| Where he is set to rise no more | L |
Henry Kirk White
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