In The Churchyard At Cambridge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDBDDE FFGHHG IIBJJB| In the village churchyard she lies | A |
| Dust is in her beautiful eyes | A |
| No more she breathes nor feels nor stirs | B |
| At her feet and at her head | C |
| Lies a slave to attend the dead | C |
| But their dust is white as hers | B |
| - | |
| Was she a lady of high degree | D |
| So much in love with the vanity | D |
| And foolish pomp of this world of ours | B |
| Or was it Christian charity | D |
| And lowliness and humility | D |
| The richest and rarest of all dowers | E |
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| Who shall tell us No one speaks | F |
| No color shoots into those cheeks | F |
| Either of anger or of pride | G |
| At the rude question we have asked | H |
| Nor will the mystery be unmasked | H |
| By those who are sleeping at her side | G |
| - | |
| Hereafter And do you think to look | I |
| On the terrible pages of that Book | I |
| To find her failings faults and errors | B |
| Ah you will then have other cares | J |
| In your own short comings and despairs | J |
| In your own secret sins and terrors | B |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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