At The Sign Of The Skull Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL BB| It's 'Gallop and go ' and 'Slow now slow ' | A |
| With every man in this life below | B |
| But the things of this world are a fleeting show | B |
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| The postchaise Time that all must take | C |
| Is old with clay and dust | D |
| Two horses strain its rusty brake | C |
| Named Pleasure and Disgust | D |
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| Our baggage totters on its roof | E |
| Of Vanity and Care | F |
| As Hope the postboy spurs each hoof | E |
| Or heavy eyed Despair | F |
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| And now a comrade with us rides | G |
| Love haply or Remorse | H |
| And that dim traveler besides | G |
| Gaunt Memory on a horse | H |
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| And be we king or be we kern | I |
| Who ride the roads of Sin | J |
| No matter how the roads may turn | I |
| They lead us to that Inn | J |
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| Unto that Inn within that land | K |
| Of silence and of gloom | L |
| Whose ghastly landlord takes our hand | K |
| And leads us to our room | L |
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| It's 'Gallop and go ' and 'Slow now slow ' | - |
| With every man in this life below | B |
| But the things of this world are a fleeting show | B |
Madison Julius Cawein
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