The King Is Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE AFAAF GHGGH IJIIJ| Aye lay him in his grave the old dead year | A |
| His life is lived fulfilled his destiny | B |
| Have you for him no sad regretful tear | C |
| To drop beside the cold unfollowed bier | D |
| Can you not pay the tribute of a sigh | E |
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| Was he not kind to you this dead old year | A |
| Did he not give enough of earthly store | F |
| Enough of love and laughter and good cheer | A |
| Have not the skies you scanned sometimes been clear | A |
| How then of him who dies could you ask more | F |
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| It is not well to hate him for the pain | G |
| He brought you and the sorrows manifold | H |
| To pardon him these hurts still I am fain | G |
| For in the panting period of his reign | G |
| He brought me new wounds but he healed the old | H |
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| One little sigh for thee my poor dead friend | I |
| One little sigh while my companions sing | J |
| Thou art so soon forgotten in the end | I |
| We cry e'en as thy footsteps downward tend | I |
| The king is dead long live the king | J |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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