Thanatos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBBCDAEAFF BBGGFFDDHHHHIIFFFFBB FFBBJJDD| Oh who would cherish life | A |
| And cling unto this heavy clog of clay | B |
| Love this rude world of strife | A |
| Where glooms and tempests cloud the fairest day | B |
| And where 'neath outward smiles | C |
| Conceal'd the snake lies feeding on its prey | B |
| Where pitfalls lie in every flowery way | B |
| And sirens lure the wanderer to their wiles | C |
| Hateful it is to me | D |
| Its riotous railings and revengeful strife | A |
| I'm tired with all its screams and brutal shouts | E |
| Dinning the ear away away with life | A |
| And welcome oh thou silent maid | F |
| Who in some foggy vault art laid | F |
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| Where never daylight's dazzling ray | B |
| Comes to disturb thy dismal sway | B |
| And there amid unwholesome damps dost sleep | G |
| In such forgetful slumbers deep | G |
| That all thy senses stupefied | F |
| Are to marble petrified | F |
| Sleepy Death I welcome thee | D |
| Sweet are thy calms to misery | D |
| Poppies I will ask no more | H |
| Nor the fatal hellebore | H |
| Death is the best the only cure | H |
| His are slumbers ever sure | H |
| Lay me in the Gothic tomb | I |
| In whose solemn fretted gloom | I |
| I may lie in mouldering state | F |
| With all the grandeur of the great | F |
| Over me magnificent | F |
| Carve a stately monument | F |
| Then thereon my statue lay | B |
| With hands in attitude to pray | B |
| And angels serve to hold my head | F |
| Weeping o'er the father dead | F |
| Duly too at close of day | B |
| Let the pealing organ play | B |
| And while the harmonious thunders roll | J |
| Chant a vesper to my soul | J |
| Thus how sweet my sleep will be | D |
| Shut out from thoughtful misery | D |
Henry Kirk White
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