A Dog's Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH| The loose earth falls in the grave like a peaceful regular breathing | A |
| Too like for I was deceived a moment by the sound | B |
| It has covered the heap of bracken that the gardener laid above him | C |
| Quiet the spade swings there we have now his mound | B |
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| A patch of fresh earth on the floor of the wood's renewing chamber | D |
| All around is grass and moss and the hyacinth's dark green sprouts | E |
| And oaks are above that were old when his fiftieth sire was a puppy | F |
| And far away in the garden I hear the children's shouts | E |
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| Their joy is remote as a dream It is strange how we buy our sorrow | G |
| For the touch of perishing things idly with open eyes | H |
| How we give our hearts to brutes that will die in a few seasons | I |
| Nor trouble what we do when we do it nor would have it otherwise | H |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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