The Dead Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDC EFEF| Time is so long when a man is dead | A |
| Some one sews and the room is made | B |
| Very clean and the light is shed | A |
| Soft through the window shade | B |
| - | |
| Yesterday I thought 'I know | C |
| Just how the bells will sound and how | D |
| The friends will talk and the sermon go | C |
| And the hearse horse bow and bow ' | - |
| - | |
| This is to day and I have no thing | E |
| To think of nothing whatever to do | F |
| But to hear the throb of the pulse of a wing | E |
| That wants to fly back to you | F |
James Whitcomb Riley
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