Scenes In London Iv - The City Churchyard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG EHEI JKJL MEME NOPO QRQR STST UHUV WXWX| I PRAY thee lay me not to rest | A |
| Among these mouldering bones | B |
| Too heavily the earth is prest | A |
| By all these crowded stones | B |
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| Life is too gay life is too near | C |
| With all its pomp and toil | D |
| I pray thee do not lay me here | E |
| In such a world struck soil | D |
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| The ceaseless roll of wheels would wake | F |
| The slumbers of the dead | G |
| I cannot bear for life to make | F |
| Its pathway o'er my head | G |
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| The flags around are cold and drear | E |
| They stand apart alone | H |
| And no one ever pauses here | E |
| To sorrow for the gone | I |
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| No lay me in the far green fields | J |
| The summer sunshine cheers | K |
| And where the early wild flower yields | J |
| The tribute of its tears | L |
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| Where shadows the sepulchral yew | M |
| Where droops the willow tree | E |
| Where the long grass is filled with dew | M |
| Oh make such grave for me | E |
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| And passers by at evening's close | N |
| Will pause beside the grave | O |
| And moralize o'er the repose | P |
| They fear and yet they crave | O |
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| Perhaps some kindly hand may bring | Q |
| Its offering to the tomb | R |
| And say As fades the rose in spring | Q |
| So fadeth human bloom | R |
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| But here there is no kindly thought | S |
| To soothe and to relieve | T |
| No fancies and no flowers are brought | S |
| That soften while they grieve | T |
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| Here Poesy and Love come not | U |
| It is a world of stone | H |
| The grave is bought is closed forgot | U |
| And then life hurries on | V |
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| Sorrow and beauty nature love | W |
| Redeem man's common breath | X |
| Ah let them shed the grave above | W |
| Give loveliness to death | X |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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