A Dirge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDEE A FGFGGGHH A IJKJCCFF L MNONPPLL L QNQNAAEEI | A |
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Life has fled she is dead | B |
Sleeping in the flow'ry vale | C |
Where the fleeting shades are shed | B |
Ghost like o'er her features pale | C |
Lay her 'neath the violets wild | D |
Lay her like a dreaming child | D |
'Neath the waving grass | E |
Where the shadows pass | E |
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II | A |
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Gone she has to happy rest | F |
With white flowers for her pillow | G |
Moons look sadly on her breast | F |
Thro' an ever weeping willow | G |
Fold her hands frail flakes of snow | G |
Waxen as white roses blow | G |
Like herself so fair | H |
Free from world and care | H |
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III | A |
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Twine this wreath of lilies wan | I |
'Round her sculptured brow so white | J |
Let her rest here white as dawn | K |
Like a lily quenched in night | J |
Wreath this rosebud wild and pale | C |
Wreath it 'mid her fingers frail | C |
On her dreamless breast | F |
Let it dreaming rest | F |
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IV | L |
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Gently gently lay her down | M |
Gently lay her form to sleep | N |
Gently let her soul be blown | O |
Far away while low we weep | N |
Hush the earth no more can harm her | P |
Now that choirs of angels charm her | P |
Dreams of life are brief | L |
Naught amendeth grief | L |
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V | L |
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Speed away speed away | Q |
Angels called her here to sleep | N |
Let us leave her here to stay | Q |
Speed away and speeding weep | N |
Where the roses blow and die | A |
'Neath them she a rose doth lie | A |
Wilted in the grass | E |
Where the shadows pass | E |
Madison Julius Cawein
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