At The Grave Of Walker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDC AEEFEGEG HIIHJKKL MKKMNOON PQQPNRRN| He lies low in the levelled sand | A |
| Unsheltered from the tropic sun | B |
| And now of all he knew not one | B |
| Will speak him fair in that far land | A |
| Perhaps 'twas this that made me seek | C |
| Disguised his grave one winter tide | D |
| A weakness for the weaker side | D |
| A siding with the helpless weak | C |
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| A palm not far held out a hand | A |
| Hard by a long green bamboo swung | E |
| And bent like some great bow unstrung | E |
| And quivered like a willow wand | F |
| Perched on its fruits that crooked hang | E |
| Beneath a broad banana's leaf | G |
| A bird in rainbow splendor sang | E |
| A low sad song of tempered grief | G |
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| No sod no sign no cross nor stone | H |
| But at his side a cactus green | I |
| Upheld its lances long and keen | I |
| It stood in sacred sands alone | H |
| Flat palmed and fierce with lifted spears | J |
| One bloom of crimson crowned its head | K |
| A drop of blood so bright so red | K |
| Yet redolent as roses' tears | L |
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| In my left hand I held a shell | M |
| All rosy lipped and pearly red | K |
| I laid it by his lowly bed | K |
| For he did love so passing well | M |
| The grand songs of the solemn sea | N |
| O shell sing well wild with a will | O |
| When storms blow loud and birds be still | O |
| The wildest sea song known to thee | N |
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| I said some things with folded hands | P |
| Soft whispered in the dim sea sound | Q |
| And eyes held humbly to the ground | Q |
| And frail knees sunken in the sands | P |
| He had done more than this for me | N |
| And yet I could not well do more | R |
| I turned me down the olive shore | R |
| And set a sad face to the sea | N |
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