The Cemetery Nightingale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC BDBD BEBE BEBE AFAF GGBHHBIIBAAB| In the hills' embraces holden | A |
| In a valley filled with glooms | B |
| Lies a cemetery olden | A |
| Strewn with countless mould'ring tombs | B |
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| Ancient graves o'erhung with mosses | B |
| Crumbling stones effaced and green | C |
| Venturesome is he who crosses | B |
| Night or day the lonely scene | C |
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| Blasted trees and willow streamers | B |
| 'Midst the terror round them spread | D |
| Seem like awe bound silent dreamers | B |
| In this garden of the dead | D |
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| One bird anguish stricken lingers | B |
| In the shadow of the vale | E |
| First and best of feathered singers | B |
| 'Tis the churchyard nightingale | E |
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| As from bough to bough he flutters | B |
| Sweetest songs of woe and wail | E |
| Through his gift divine he utters | B |
| For the dreamers in the vale | E |
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| Listen how his trills awaken | A |
| Echoes from each mossy stone | F |
| Of all places he has taken | A |
| God's still Acre for his own | F |
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| Not on Spring or Summer glory | G |
| Not on god or angel story | G |
| Loyal poet fancy dwells | B |
| Not on streams for rich men flowing | H |
| Not on fields for rich men's mowing | H |
| Graves he sees of graves he tells | B |
| Pain oppression woe eternal | I |
| Open heart wounds deep diurnal | I |
| Nothing comforts or allays | B |
| O'er God's Acre in each nation | A |
| Sings he songs of tribulation | A |
| Tunes his golden harp and plays | B |
Morris Rosenfeld
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