A Requiem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBDEBFGHHIFFJJKLL MKNKLONOPN| For Soldiers lost in Ocean Transports | A |
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| When after storms that woodlands rue | B |
| To valleys comes atoning dawn | C |
| The robins blithe their orchard sports renew | B |
| And meadow larks no more withdrawn | C |
| Caroling fly in the languid blue | B |
| The while from many a hid recess | D |
| Alert to partake the blessedness | E |
| The pouring mites their airy dance pursue | B |
| So after ocean's ghastly gales | F |
| When laughing light of hoyden morning | G |
| breaks | H |
| Every finny hider wakes | H |
| From vaults profound swims up with | I |
| glittering scales | F |
| Through the delightsome sea he sails | F |
| With shoals of shining tiny things | J |
| Frolic on every wave that flings | J |
| Against the prow its showery spray | K |
| All creatures joying in the morn | L |
| Save them forever from joyance torn | L |
| Whose bark was lost where now the | M |
| dolphins play | K |
| Save them that by the fabled shore | N |
| Down the pale stream are washed away | K |
| Far to the reef of bones are borne | L |
| And never revisits them the light | O |
| Nor sight of long sought land and pilot more | N |
| Nor heed they now the lone bird's flight | O |
| Round the lone spar where mid sea surges | P |
| pour | N |
Herman Melville
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