Dirge (ii) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDCBEEBFEFGFFFH| Stay Death Not mine the Christus wand | A |
| Wherewith to charge thee and command | B |
| I plead Most gently hold the hand | B |
| Of her thou leadest far away | C |
| Fear thou to let her naked feet | D |
| Tread ashes but let mosses sweet | D |
| Her footing tempt where'er ye stray | C |
| Shun Orcus win the moonlit land | B |
| Belulled the silent meadows lone | E |
| Where never any leaf is blown | E |
| From lily stem in Azrael's hand | B |
| There till her love rejoin her lowly | F |
| Pensive a shade but all her own | E |
| On honey feed her wild and holy | F |
| Or trance her with thy choicest charm | G |
| And if ere yet the lover's free | F |
| Some added dusk thy rule decree | F |
| That shadow only let it be | F |
| Thrown in the moon glade by the palm | H |
Herman Melville
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