The Old Man's Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHAA IIJJBB| Make it where the winds may sweep | A |
| Through the pine boughs soft and deep | A |
| And the murmur of the sea | B |
| Come across the orient lea | B |
| And the falling raindrops sing | C |
| Gently to his slumbering | C |
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| Make it where the meadows wide | D |
| Greenly lie on every side | D |
| Harvest fields he reaped and trod | E |
| Westering slopes of clover sod | E |
| Orchard lands where bloom and blow | F |
| Trees he planted long ago | F |
| - | |
| Make it where the starshine dim | G |
| May be always close to him | G |
| And the sunrise glory spread | H |
| Lavishly around his bed | H |
| And the dewy grasses creep | A |
| Tenderly above his sleep | A |
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| Since these things to him were dear | I |
| Through full many a well spent year | I |
| It is surely meet their grace | J |
| Should be on his resting place | J |
| And the murmur of the sea | B |
| Be his dirge eternally | B |
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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