Famine Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFCDCD GBHBCDCD IJIJCDCD KLKLCDCD MNMNCDCD| Death and Famine on every side | A |
| And never a sign of rain | B |
| The bones of those who have starved and died | A |
| Unburied upon the plain | B |
| What care have I that the bones bleach white | C |
| To morrow they may be mine | D |
| But I shall sleep in your arms to night | C |
| And drink your lips like wine | D |
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| Cholera Riot and Sudden Death | E |
| And the brave red blood set free | F |
| The glazing eye and the failing breath | E |
| But what are these things to me | F |
| Your breath is quick and your eyes are bright | C |
| And your blood is red like wine | D |
| And I shall sleep in your arms to night | C |
| And hold your lips with mine | D |
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| I hear the sound of a thousand tears | G |
| Like softly pattering rain | B |
| I see the fever folly and fears | H |
| Fulfilling man's tale of pain | B |
| But for the moment your star is bright | C |
| I revel beneath its shine | D |
| For I shall sleep in your arms to night | C |
| And feel your lips on mine | D |
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| And you need not deem me over cold | I |
| That I do not stop to think | J |
| For all the pleasure this Life may hold | I |
| Is on the Precipice brink | J |
| Thought could but lessen my soul's delight | C |
| And to day she may not pine | D |
| For I shall lie in your arms to night | C |
| And close your lips with mine | D |
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| I trust what sorrow the Fates may send | K |
| I may carry quietly through | L |
| And pray for grace when I reach the end | K |
| To die as a man should do | L |
| To day at least must be clear and bright | C |
| Without a sorrowful sign | D |
| Because I sleep in your arms to night | C |
| And feel your lips on mine | D |
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| So on I work in the blazing sun | M |
| To bury what dead we may | N |
| But glad oh glad when the day is done | M |
| And the night falls round us grey | N |
| Would those we covered away from sight | C |
| Had a rest as sweet as mine | D |
| For I shall sleep in your arms to night | C |
| And drink your lips like wine | D |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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