The Dead Coach Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGH IIJJ KKLL MMNN| At night when sick folk wakeful lie | A |
| I heard the dead coach passing by | A |
| And heard it passing wild and fleet | B |
| And knew my time was come not yet | C |
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| Click clack click clack the hoofs went past | D |
| Who takes the dead coach travels fast | D |
| On and away through the wild night | E |
| The dead must rest ere morning light | E |
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| If one might follow on its track | F |
| The coach and horses midnight black | F |
| Within should sit a shape of doom | G |
| That beckons one and all to come | H |
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| God pity them to night who wait | I |
| To hear the dead coach at their gate | I |
| And him who hears though sense be dim | J |
| The mournful dead coach stop for him | J |
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| He shall go down with a still face | K |
| And mount the steps and take his place | K |
| The door be shut the order said | L |
| How fast the pace is with the dead | L |
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| Click clack click clack the hour is chill | M |
| The dead coach climbs the distant hill | M |
| Now God the Father of us all | N |
| Wipe Thou the widow s tears that fall | N |
Katharine Tynan
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