Dirge Over A Nameless Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI EJEJ KLKL MFNO| By yon still river where the wave | A |
| Is winding slow at evening's close | B |
| The beech upon a nameless grave | A |
| Its sadly moving shadow throws | C |
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| O'er the fair woods the sun looks down | D |
| Upon the many twinkling leaves | E |
| And twilight's mellow shades are brown | D |
| Where darkly the green turf upheaves | E |
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| The river glides in silence there | F |
| And hardly waves the sapling tree | G |
| Sweet flowers are springing and the air | F |
| Is full of balm but where is she | G |
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| They bade her wed a son of pride | H |
| And leave the hope she cherished long | I |
| She loved but one and would not hide | H |
| A love which knew no wrong | I |
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| And months went sadly on and years | E |
| And she was wasting day by day | J |
| At length she died and many tears | E |
| Were shed that she should pass away | J |
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| Then came a gray old man and knelt | K |
| With bitter weeping by her tomb | L |
| And others mourned for him who felt | K |
| That he had sealed a daughter's doom | L |
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| The funeral train has long past on | M |
| And time wiped dry the father's tear | F |
| Farewell lost maiden there is one | N |
| That mourns thee yet and he is here | O |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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