All Souls' Day In A German Town Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFFGGHHIIJJFFKK FFLLMMNNEEOOFFPBOOO| The leaves fall softly a wind of sighs | A |
| Whispers the world's infirmities | B |
| Whispers the tale of the waning years | C |
| While slow mists gather in shrouding tears | D |
| On All Souls' Day and the bells are slow | E |
| In steeple and tower Sad folk go | E |
| Away from the township past the mill | F |
| And mount the slope of a grassy hill | F |
| Carved into terraces broad and steep | G |
| To the inn where wearied travellers sleep | G |
| Where the sleepers lie in ordered rows | H |
| And no man stirs in his long repose | H |
| They wend their way past the haunts of life | I |
| Father and daughter grandmother wife | I |
| To deck with candle and deathless cross | J |
| The house which holds their dearest loss | J |
| I who stand on the crest of the hill | F |
| Watch how beneath me busied still | F |
| The sad folk wreathe each grave with flowers | K |
| Awhile the veil of the twilight hours | K |
| Falls softly softly over the hill | F |
| Shadows the cross creeps on until | F |
| Swiftly upon us is flung the dark | L |
| Then as if lit by a sudden spark | L |
| Each grave is vivid with points of light | M |
| Earth is as Heaven's mirror to night | M |
| The air is still as a spirit's breath | N |
| The lights burn bright in the realm of Death | N |
| Then silent the mourners mourning go | E |
| Wending their way to the church below | E |
| While the bells toll out to bid them speed | O |
| With eager Pater and prayerful bead | O |
| The souls of the dead whose bodies still | F |
| Lie in the churchyard under the hill | F |
| While they wait and wonder in Paradise | P |
| And gaze on the dawning mysteries | B |
| Praying for us in our hours of need | O |
| For us who with Pater and prayerful bead | O |
| Have bidden those waiting spirits speed | O |
Michael Fairless
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