On Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACAADEFFGFHF| O life thy name to me's a galling sound | A |
| A sound I fain would wish to breathe no more | B |
| One only peace for me my hopes have found | A |
| When thy existence and wild race is o'er | C |
| When Death with one heals every other wound | A |
| And lays my aching head in the cold ground | A |
| O happy hour I only wish to have | D |
| Another moment's gasp and then the grave | E |
| I only wish for one departing sigh | F |
| A welcome farewel take of all and die | F |
| Thou'st given me little world for thanks' return | G |
| Thou tempst me little with thee still to 'bide | F |
| One only cause in leaving thee I mourn | H |
| That I had e'er been born nor in the cradle died | F |
John Clare
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