In A Graveyard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FDGD GHDH CEIEIn the dewy depths of the graveyard | A |
I lie in the tangled grass | B |
And watch in the sea of azure | C |
The white cloud islands pass | B |
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The birds in the rustling branches | D |
Sing gayly overhead | E |
Gray stones like sentinel spectres | D |
Are guarding the silent dead | E |
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The early flowers sleep shaded | F |
In the cool green noonday glooms | D |
The broken light falls shuddering | G |
On the cold white face of the tombs | D |
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Without the world is smiling | G |
In the infinite love of God | H |
But the sunlight fails and falters | D |
When it falls on the churchyard sod | H |
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On me the joyous rapture | C |
Of a heart's first love is shed | E |
But it falls on my heart as coldly | I |
As sunlight on the dead | E |
John Hay
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