Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGG| Death is a road our dearest friends have gone | A |
| Why with such leaders fear to say Lead on | B |
| Its gate repels lest it too soon be tried | C |
| But turns in balm on the immortal side | C |
| Mothers have passed it fathers children men | D |
| Whose like we look not to behold again | D |
| Women that smiled away their loving breath | E |
| Soft is the travelling on the road to death | E |
| But guilt has passed it men not fit to die | F |
| O hush for He that made us all is by | F |
| Human we're all all men all born of mothers | G |
| All our own selves in the worn out shape of others | G |
| Our used and oh be sure not to be ill used brothers | G |
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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