The Family Burying-ground Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAB CCDCD EEFEF GGHGH BBEBE| A wall of crumbling stones doth keep | A |
| Watch o'er long barrows where they sleep | A |
| Old chronicled grave stones of its dead | B |
| On which oblivious mosses creep | A |
| And lichens gray as lead | B |
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| Warm days the lost cows as they pass | C |
| Rest here and browse the juicy grass | C |
| That springs about its sun scorched stones | D |
| Afar one hears their bells' deep brass | C |
| Waft melancholy tones | D |
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| Here the wild morning glory goes | E |
| A rambling as the myrtle grows | E |
| Wild morning glories pale as pain | F |
| With holy urns that hint at woes | E |
| The night hath filled with rain | F |
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| Here are blackberries largest seen | G |
| Rich winey dark whereon the lean | G |
| Black hornet sucks noons sick with heat | H |
| That bend not to the shadowed green | G |
| The heavy bearded wheat | H |
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| At dark for its forgotten dead | B |
| A requiem of no known wind said | B |
| Through ghostly cedars moans and throbs | E |
| While to thin starlight overhead | B |
| The shivering screech owl sobs | E |
Madison Julius Cawein
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