The Last Look Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBB CCC DDD AAA EEE FFF GGG CCC CCC CCC HHH III| W W SWAIN | A |
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| BEHOLD not him we knew | B |
| This was the prison which his soul looked through | B |
| Tender and brave and true | B |
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| His voice no more is heard | C |
| And his dead name that dear familiar word | C |
| Lies on our lips unstirred | C |
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| He spake with poet's tongue | D |
| Living for him the minstrel's lyre was strung | D |
| He shall not die unsung | D |
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| Grief tried his love and pain | A |
| And the long bondage of his martyr chain | A |
| Vexed his sweet soul in vain | A |
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| It felt life's surges break | E |
| As girt with stormy seas his island lake | E |
| Smiling while tempests wake | E |
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| How can we sorrow more | F |
| Grieve not for him whose heart had gone before | F |
| To that untrodden shore | F |
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| Lo through its leafy screen | G |
| A gleam of sunlight on a ring of green | G |
| Untrodden half unseen | G |
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| Here let his body rest | C |
| Where the calm shadows that his soul loved best | C |
| May slide above his breast | C |
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| Smooth his uncurtained bed | C |
| And if some natural tears are softly shed | C |
| It is not for the dead | C |
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| Fold the green turf aright | C |
| For the long hours before the morning's light | C |
| And say the last Good Night | C |
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| And plant a clear white stone | H |
| Close by those mounds which hold his loved his own | H |
| Lonely but not alone | H |
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| Here let him sleeping lie | I |
| Till Heaven's bright watchers slumber in the sky | I |
| And Death himself shall die | I |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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