Dead Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH FAFA| The little cousin is dead by foul subtraction | A |
| A green bough from Virginia's aged tree | B |
| And none of the county kin like the transaction | A |
| Nor some of the world of outer dark like me | B |
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| A boy not beautiful nor good nor clever | C |
| A black cloud full of storms too hot for keeping | D |
| A sword beneath his mother's heart yet never | C |
| Woman bewept her babe as this is weeping | D |
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| A pig with a pasty face so I had said | E |
| Squealing for cookies kinned by poor pretense | F |
| With a noble house But the little man quite dead | E |
| I see the forbears' antique lineaments | F |
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| The elder men have strode by the box of death | G |
| To the wide flag porch and muttering low send round | H |
| The bruit of the day O friendly waste of breath | G |
| Their hearts are hurt with a deep dynastic wound | H |
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| He was pale and little the foolish neighbors say | F |
| The first fruits saith the Preacher the Lord hath taken | A |
| But this was the old tree's late branch wrenched away | F |
| Grieving the sapless limbs the short and shaken | A |
John Crowe Ransom
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