Emily's Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGGHHIBJJK KBBFLCMMNOPPQQRRSSDD QQFF T| Idly one day in a foreign town | A |
| In a churchyard's shade I sat me down | A |
| By the side of a little cross of stone | B |
| On which was a woman's name alone | B |
| A cypress whispered in my ear | C |
| That all was now neglected here | C |
| Emily's Grave was all I read | D |
| Nothing more on the cross was said | D |
| Neither a name nor Bible verse | E |
| Nor date relieved the inscription terse | E |
| Emily's Grave | F |
| So strange this seemed my blood turned cold | G |
| At thought of a tragedy never told | G |
| The flowers the grass and the humming bees | H |
| Were blithe and gay in the sun and breeze | H |
| Yet no kind hand had ever strewn | I |
| Sweet flowers where only weeds had grown | B |
| And nothing brightened the lonely mound | J |
| Whose edge was lost in the trodden ground | J |
| At length to the churchyard gate I went | K |
| And asked of a woman old and bent | K |
| Who was the girl whose cross of stone | B |
| Bears nothing save these words alone | B |
| 'Emily's Grave' | F |
| Alas she answered many a year | L |
| Hath passed since I beheld her bier | C |
| She was young and came from a humble nest | M |
| And credulous too like all the rest | M |
| So a stranger met her here one day | N |
| And caught her in his net straightway | O |
| He said he was rich and she should shine | P |
| Like a queen in his castle by the Rhine | P |
| And winning her love he took her hence | Q |
| To where she found it was all pretence | Q |
| He had basely lied to the simple maid | R |
| And wearying soon of a girl betrayed | R |
| Abandoned her then home once more | S |
| She came to sink at her mother's door | S |
| Of shame and grief she was quickly dead | D |
| For here she could no more lift her head | D |
| And her mother wishing to efface | Q |
| All memory of her child's disgrace | Q |
| Reared that small cross to which she gave | F |
| The title only 'Emily's Grave' | F |
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| From the German | T |
John L. Stoddard
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