Requiescat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCCBB DEDE FFFEE DGDG HHHGG IJIJ DDDJJ KLML NNNLL| The roses mourn for her who sleeps | A |
| Within the tomb | B |
| For her each lily flower weeps | A |
| Dew and perfume | B |
| - | |
| In each neglected flower bed | C |
| Each blossom droops its lovely head | C |
| They miss her touch they miss her tread | C |
| Her face of bloom | B |
| Of happy bloom | B |
| - | |
| The very breezes grieve for her | D |
| A lonely grief | E |
| For her each tree is sorrower | D |
| Each blade and leaf | E |
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| The foliage rocks itself and sighs | F |
| And to its woe the wind replies | F |
| They miss her girlish laugh and cries | F |
| Whose life was brief | E |
| Was very brief | E |
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| The sunlight too seems pale with care | D |
| Or sick with woe | G |
| The memory haunts it of her hair | D |
| Its golden glow | G |
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| No more within the bramble brake | H |
| The sleepy bloom is kissed awake | H |
| The sun is sad for her dear sake | H |
| Whose head lies low | G |
| Lies dim and low | G |
| - | |
| The bird that sang so sweet is still | I |
| At dusk and dawn | J |
| No more it makes the silence thrill | I |
| Of wood and lawn | J |
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| In vain the buds when it is near | D |
| Open each pink and perfumed ear | D |
| The song it sings she will not hear | D |
| Who now is gone | J |
| Is dead and gone | J |
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| Ah well she sleeps who loved them well | K |
| The birds and bowers | L |
| The fair the young the lovable | M |
| Who once was ours | L |
| - | |
| Alas that loveliness must pass | N |
| Must come to lie beneath the grass | N |
| That youth and joy must fade alas | N |
| And die like flowers | L |
| Earth's sweetest flowers | L |
Madison Julius Cawein
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