Lines Written By A Death-bed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACADAEAEDFFF GHDDIIAAAAFFFJKLLMMN NO FF| Yes now the longing is o'erpast | A |
| Which dogg'd by fear and fought by shame | B |
| Shook her weak bosom day and night | A |
| Consum'd her beauty like a flame | B |
| And dimm'd it like the desert blast | A |
| And though the curtains hide her face | C |
| Yet were it lifted to the light | A |
| The sweet expression of her brow | D |
| Would charm the gazer till his thought | A |
| Eras'd the ravages of time | E |
| Fill'd up the hollow cheek and brought | A |
| A freshness back as of her prime | E |
| So healing is her quiet now | D |
| So perfectly the lines express | F |
| A placid settled loveliness | F |
| Her youngest rival's freshest grace | F |
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| But ah though peace indeed is here | G |
| And ease from shame and rest from fear | H |
| Though nothing can dismarble now | D |
| The smoothness of that limpid brow | D |
| Yet is a calm like this in truth | I |
| The crowning end of life and youth | I |
| And when this boon rewards the dead | A |
| Are all debts paid has all been said | A |
| And is the heart of youth so light | A |
| Its step so firm its eye so bright | A |
| Because on its hot brow there blows | F |
| A wind of promise and repose | F |
| From the far grave to which it goes | F |
| Because it has the hope to come | J |
| One day to harbour in the tomb | K |
| Ah no the bliss youth dreams is one | L |
| For daylight for the cheerful sun | L |
| For feeling nerves and living breath | M |
| Youth dreams a bliss on this side death | M |
| It dreams a rest if not more deep | N |
| More grateful than this marble sleep | N |
| It hears a voice within it tell | O |
| 'Calm's not life's crown though calm is well ' | - |
| 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires | F |
| But 'tis not what our youth desires | F |
Matthew Arnold
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