The Dead Feast Of The Kol-folk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDACCECCEFGGFH ABIBICJJKKDDLFCCLFH AMIINOOCCFFKCCCCKFH AIIAKKJPPJCCJFQFFRFH| We have opened the door | A |
| Once twice thrice | B |
| We have swept the floor | A |
| We have boiled the rice | B |
| Come hither come hither | C |
| Come from the far lands | D |
| Come from the star lands | D |
| Come as before | A |
| We lived long together | C |
| We loved one another | C |
| Come back to our life | E |
| Come father come mother | C |
| Come sister and brother | C |
| Child husband and wife | E |
| For you we are sighing | F |
| Come take your old places | G |
| Come look in our faces | G |
| The dead on the dying | F |
| Come home | H |
| - | |
| We have opened the door | A |
| Once twice thrice | B |
| We have kindled the coals | I |
| And we boil the rice | B |
| For the feast of souls | I |
| Come hither come hither | C |
| Think not we fear you | J |
| Whose hearts are so near you | J |
| Come tenderly thought on | K |
| Come all unforgotten | K |
| Come from the shadow lands | D |
| From the dim meadow lands | D |
| Where the pale grasses bend | L |
| Low to our sighing | F |
| Come father come mother | C |
| Come sister and brother | C |
| Come husband and friend | L |
| The dead to the dying | F |
| Come home | H |
| - | |
| We have opened the door | A |
| You entered so oft | M |
| For the feast of souls | I |
| We have kindled the coals | I |
| And we boil the rice soft | N |
| Come you who are dearest | O |
| To us who are nearest | O |
| Come hither come hither | C |
| From out the wild weather | C |
| The storm clouds are flying | F |
| The peepul is sighing | F |
| Come in from the rain | K |
| Come father come mother | C |
| Come sister and brother | C |
| Come husband and lover | C |
| Beneath our roof cover | C |
| Look on us again | K |
| The dead on the dying | F |
| Come home | H |
| - | |
| We have opened the door | A |
| For the feast of souls | I |
| We have kindled the coals | I |
| We may kindle no more | A |
| Snake fever and famine | K |
| The curse of the Brahmin | K |
| The sun and the dew | J |
| They burn us they bite us | P |
| They waste us and smite us | P |
| Our days are but few | J |
| In strange lands far yonder | C |
| To wonder and wander | C |
| We hasten to you | J |
| List then to our sighing | F |
| While yet we are here | Q |
| Nor seeing nor hearing | F |
| We wait without fearing | F |
| To feel you draw near | R |
| O dead to the dying | F |
| Come home | H |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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