The Funeral Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH EIEJ EKEL MNON PQPQ| MARK you not yon sad procession | A |
| 'Mid the ruin'd abbey's gloom | B |
| Hastening to the worm's possession | A |
| To the dark and silent tomb | B |
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| See the velvet pall hangs over | C |
| Poor mortality's remains | D |
| We should shudder to discover | C |
| What that coffin's space contains | D |
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| Death itself is lovely wearing | E |
| But the colder shape of sleep | F |
| Or the solemn statue bearing | E |
| Beauty that forbids to weep | F |
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| But decay the pulses tremble | G |
| When its livid signs appear | H |
| When the once loved lips resemble | G |
| All we loathe and all we fear | H |
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| Is it not a ghastly ending | E |
| For the body's godlike form | I |
| Thus to the damp earth descending | E |
| Food and triumph to the worm | J |
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| Better far the red pile blazing | E |
| With the spicy Indian wood | K |
| Incense unto heaven raising | E |
| From the sandal oil's sweet flood | L |
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| In the bright pyre's kindling flashes | M |
| Let my yielded soul ascend | N |
| Fling to the wild winds my ashes | O |
| 'Till with mother earth they blend | N |
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| Not so let the pale urn keep them | P |
| Touch'd with spices oil and wine | Q |
| Let there be some one to weep them | P |
| Wilt thou keep that urn Love mine | Q |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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