Written In The Prospect Of Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIHJKHHLMFKKN OLKPKEQHERKSHKHHHGEH GTHKUVKWHXQHKHXEKG| Sad solitary Thought who keep'st thy vigils | A |
| Thy solemn vigils in the sick man's mind | B |
| Communing lonely with his sinking soul | C |
| And musing on the dubious glooms that lie | D |
| In dim obscurity before him thee | E |
| Wrapt in thy dark magnificence I call | F |
| At this still midnight hour this awful season | G |
| When on my bed in wakeful restlessness | H |
| I turn me wearisome while all around | I |
| All all save me sink in forgetfulness | H |
| I only wake to watch the sickly taper | J |
| Which lights me to my tomb Yes 'tis the hand | K |
| Of death I feel press heavy on my vitals | H |
| Slow sapping the warm current of existence | H |
| My moments now are few the sand of life | L |
| Ebbs fastly to its finish Yet a little | M |
| And the last fleeting particle will fall | F |
| Silent unseen unnoticed unlamented | K |
| Come then sad Thought and let us meditate | K |
| While meditate we may We have now | N |
| But a small portion of what men call time | O |
| To hold communion for even now the knife | L |
| The separating knife I feel divide | K |
| The tender bond that binds my soul to earth | P |
| Yes I must die I feel that I must die | K |
| And though to me has life been dark and dreary | E |
| Though Hope for me has smiled but to deceive | Q |
| And Disappointment still pursued her blandishments | H |
| Yet do I feel my soul recoil within me | E |
| As I contemplate the dim gulf of death | R |
| The shuddering void the awful blank futurity | K |
| Ay I had planned full many a sanguine scheme | S |
| Of earthly happiness romantic schemes | H |
| And fraught with loveliness and it is hard | K |
| To feel the hand of Death arrest one's steps | H |
| Throw a chill blight o'er all one's budding hopes | H |
| And hurl one's soul untimely to the shades | H |
| Lost in the gaping gulf of blank oblivion | G |
| Fifty years hence and who will hear of Henry | E |
| Oh none another busy brood of beings | H |
| Will shoot up in the interim and none | G |
| Will hold him in remembrance I shall sink | T |
| As sinks a stranger in the crowded streets | H |
| Of busy London Some short bustle's caused | K |
| A few inquiries and the crowds close in | U |
| And all's forgotten On my grassy grave | V |
| The men of future times will careless tread | K |
| And read my name upon the sculptured stone | W |
| Nor will the sound familiar to their ears | H |
| Recall my vanish'd memory I did hope | X |
| For better things I hoped I should not leave | Q |
| The earth without a vestige Fate decrees | H |
| It shall be otherwise and I submit | K |
| Henceforth oh world no more of thy desires | H |
| No more of hope the wanton vagrant Hope | X |
| I abjure all Now other cares engross me | E |
| And my tired soul with emulative haste | K |
| Looks to its God and prunes its wings for heaven | G |
Henry Kirk White
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