The Consumptive Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEDFEGHGHIJ| The stars the fields will know him never | A |
| more | B |
| his friends his trees the restless swerving sea | C |
| Three days to live they said the kind gave four | B |
| They glide about his bed silently | C |
| Twas not the lead of battle nor the shell | D |
| the spitting of Maxim s basiliskine breath | E |
| Twas through the falseness of the winds he fell | D |
| the snow s mock warmth a chill His humble | F |
| death | E |
| will ne er be sung in elegy and rhyme | G |
| his passage bloodless was unstained and still | H |
| It brought no stir and smiling all the time | G |
| He waved his last farewell behind the Hill | H |
| I saw him die with my half closed eyes | I |
| And closing them I thought of Paradise | J |
Leon Gellert
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