Written In A Cemetery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CECC CFCF CGCH IJIK CLCL| Stay yet awhile oh flowers oh wandering grasses | A |
| And creeping ferns and climbing clinging vines | B |
| Bend down and cover with lush odorous masses | A |
| My darling's couch where he in sleep reclines | B |
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| Stay yet awhile let not the chill October | C |
| Plant spires of glinting frost about his bed | D |
| Nor shower her faded leaves so brown and sober | C |
| Among the tuberoses above his head | D |
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| I would have all things fair and sweet and tender | C |
| The daisy's pearl the cowslip's shield of snow | E |
| And fragrant hyacinths in purple splendour | C |
| About my darling's grassy couch to grow | C |
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| Oh birds small pilgrims of the summer weather | C |
| Come hither for my darling loved ye well | F |
| Here floats the thistle down for you to gather | C |
| And bearded grasses ripen in the dell | F |
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| Here pipe and plume your wings and chirp and flutter | C |
| And swing light poised upon the pendant bough | G |
| Fondly I deem he hears the calls ye utter | C |
| And stirs in his light sleep to answer you | H |
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| Oh wind that blows through hours of nights and lonely | I |
| Oh rain that sobs against my window pane | J |
| Ye beat upon my heart which beats but only | I |
| To clasp and shelter my lost lamb again | K |
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| Peace peace my soul I know that in another | C |
| And brighter land my darling walks and waits | L |
| Where we shall surely meet and clasp each other | C |
| Beyond the threshold of the shining gates | L |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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