Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGG| A knock is at her door but she is weak | A |
| Strange dews have washed the paint streaks from her cheek | A |
| She does not rise but ah this friend is known | B |
| And knows that he will find her all alone | B |
| So opens he the door and with soft tread | C |
| Goes straightway to the richly curtained bed | C |
| His soft hand on her dewy head he lays | D |
| A strange white light she gives him for his gaze | D |
| Then looking on the glory of her charms | E |
| He crushes her resistless in his arms | E |
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| Stand back look not upon this bold embrace | F |
| Nor view the calmness of the wanton's face | F |
| With joy unspeakable and 'bated breath | G |
| She keeps her last long liaison with death | G |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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