Death Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHHIIJJHark now everything is still | A |
The screech owl and the whistler shrill | A |
Call upon our dame aloud | B |
And bid her quickly don her shroud | B |
Much you had of land and rent | C |
Your length in clay's now competent | D |
A long war disturbed your mind | E |
Here your perfect peace is signed | E |
Of what is't fools make such vain keeping | F |
Sin their conception their birth weeping | F |
Their life a general mist of error | G |
Their death a hideous storm of terror | G |
Strew your hair with powders sweet | H |
Don clean linen bathe your feet | H |
And the foul fiend more to check | I |
A crucifix let bless your neck | I |
'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day | J |
End your groan and come away | J |
John Webster
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