The Eve Of Death (irregular) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEE FBFBGHGHIJKJ LMLMNONOPQJQ| Silence of death portentous calm | A |
| Those airy forms that yonder fly | B |
| Denote that your void foreruns a storm | C |
| That the hour of fate is nigh | B |
| I see I see on the dim mist borne | D |
| The Spirit of battles rear his crest | E |
| I see I see that ere the morn | D |
| His spear will forsake its hated rest | E |
| And the widow'd wife of Larrendill will beat her naked breast | E |
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| O'er the smooth bosom of the sullen deep | F |
| No softly ruffling zephyrs fly | B |
| But nature sleeps a deathless sleep | F |
| For the hour of battle is nigh | B |
| Not a loose leaf waves on the dusky oak | G |
| But a creeping stillness reigns around | H |
| Except when the raven with ominous croak | G |
| On the ear does unwelcomely sound | H |
| I know I know what this silence means | I |
| I know what the raven saith | J |
| Strike oh ye bards the melancholy harp | K |
| For this is the eve of death | J |
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| Behold how along the twilight air | L |
| The shades of our fathers glide | M |
| There Morven fled with the blood drench'd hair | L |
| And Colma with gray side | M |
| No gale around its coolness flings | N |
| Yet sadly sigh the gloomy trees | O |
| And hark how the harp's unvisited strings | N |
| Sound sweet as if swept by a whispering breeze | O |
| 'Tis done the sun he has set in blood | P |
| He will never set more to the brave | Q |
| Let us pour to the hero the dirge of death | J |
| For to morrow he hies to the grave | Q |
Henry Kirk White
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