When All Is Done Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GHIII| When all is done and my last word is said | A |
| And ye who loved me murmur He is dead | A |
| Let no one weep for fear that I should know | B |
| And sorrow too that ye should sorrow so | B |
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| When all is done and in the oozing clay | C |
| Ye lay this cast off hull of mine away | C |
| Pray not for me for after long despair | D |
| The quiet of the grave will be a prayer | D |
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| For I have suffered loss and grievous pain | E |
| The hurts of hatred and the world's disdain | E |
| And wounds so deep that love well tried and pure | F |
| Had not the pow'r to ease them or to cure | F |
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| When all is done say not my day is o'er | G |
| And that thro' night I seek a dimmer shore | H |
| Say rather that my morn has just begun | I |
| I greet the dawn and not a setting sun | I |
| When all is done | I |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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