The Dying Of Pere Pierre Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFEGHGHIJIJKK| with two other priests the same night he died | A |
| and was buried by the shores of the lake that bears his name | B |
| Chronicle | C |
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| Nay grieve not that ye can no honour give | D |
| To these poor bones that presently must be | E |
| But carrion since I have sought to live | F |
| Upon God's earth as He hath guided me | E |
| I shall not lack Where would ye have me lie | G |
| High heaven is higher than cathedral nave | H |
| Do men paint chancels fairer than the sky | G |
| Beside the darkened lake they made his grave | H |
| Below the altar of the hills and night | I |
| Swung incense clouds of mist in creeping lines | J |
| That twisted through the tree trunks where the light | I |
| Groped through the arches of the silent pines | J |
| And he beside the lonely path he trod | K |
| Lay tombed in splendour in the House of God | K |
John Mccrae
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