Measuring The Graves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED EFEF EGEG HIHI EJEK LML| First old Minna bent and lowly | A |
| Eyes with weeping nearly blind | B |
| Pessyeh Tsvaitel slowly slowly | A |
| With the yarn creeps on behind | B |
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| On the holy book of Minna | C |
| Fall the tear drops scarce a word | D |
| For the heart is moved within her | E |
| Of her praying can be heard | D |
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| Mighty Lord whose sovereign pleasure | E |
| Made all worlds and men of dust | F |
| I Thy humble handmaid measure | E |
| God the dwellings of the just | F |
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| Speechless here the ground they cumber | E |
| Where the pious gracious God | G |
| Where Thy heart's beloved slumber | E |
| Underneath the quiet sod | G |
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| They who sing in jubilation | H |
| Lord before Thy holy seat | I |
| Each one from his habitation | H |
| Through the dream for ever sweet | I |
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| From the yarn with which I measure | E |
| Pessyeh Tsvaitel filled with awe | J |
| Wicks will make to search the treasure | E |
| Nightly of Thy holy Law | K |
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| Praying still by faith sustained | L |
| 'Thou with whom the holy dwell | M |
| Scorn not Jacob's prayer unfeigned | L |
| Mark the tears of Israel ' | - |
Morris Rosenfeld
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