Tell Summer That I Died Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACBC DEEDDCFCWhen he was old and thin | A |
And knew not night or day | B |
He would sit up to say | B |
Something of the fire within | A |
How woefully his chin | A |
Moved so slowly as he tried | C |
Some lusty word to say | B |
Tell Summer that I died | C |
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When gladness sweeps the land | D |
And to the white sky | E |
Cool butterflies go by | E |
And sheep in shadow stand | D |
When Love the old command | D |
Turns every hate aside | C |
In the unstinted days | F |
Tell Summer that I died | C |
John Shaw Neilson
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