The Musician's[1] Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH GIGI JKJK LMLM NFNF| Thou'rt gone like the meteor that blazed in the sky | A |
| And the spot thou hast smiled upon knows thee no more | B |
| Is there no one that heaves o'er thy ashes a sigh | A |
| Is there none to regret Is there none to deplore | B |
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| Thy note it is silent thy song it is hushed | C |
| No more shall thy music entrance or enthral | D |
| The music that like the blue rivulet gushed | C |
| A finger of terror has silenced it all | D |
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| When far through the cloisters the anthem was stealing | E |
| Thy heart was ablaze with a heavenly ray | F |
| When thy organ was softly and tenderly pealing | E |
| Or the bass of thy bourdon was rolling away | F |
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| Thy vespers were sweet and thy exquisite numbers | G |
| Swelled gently and hung on the tremulous air | H |
| And light as the prayer before infancy's slumbers | G |
| Ascended on high thou hast followed them there | H |
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| And like the dim eve was thy spirit's repose | G |
| When loftily o'er thee while musing alone | I |
| Within the cathedral thine echoes arose | G |
| And melted to feeling the passionless stone | I |
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| While sculptured recess and immortalized shrine | J |
| And far stretching arches were bathed in the flood | K |
| Of the lingering sunset whose beauties were thine | J |
| And the motionless figures were blazoned in blood | K |
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| But an undertone rose thro' the chords like a wail | L |
| 'Twas thy elegy mourning thee deep in the sound | M |
| Soon soon did that something of sadness prevail | L |
| And the minors commingled and fell to the ground | M |
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| Rest peacefully Minstrel He took thee who gave | N |
| That passion is still that once swelled in thy lay | F |
| Thy notes are departed thy fame is thy grave | N |
| For the angels descended and bore thee away | F |
Lennox Amott
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