A Dialogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEAADD FGGHHIIJK ALLMMIINNDD FIIAAOOPPQQDEATH | A |
For my dagger is bathed in the blood of the brave | B |
I come care worn tenant of life from the grave | B |
Where Innocence sleeps 'neath the peace giving sod | C |
And the good cease to tremble at Tyranny's nod | C |
I offer a calm habitation to thee | D |
Say victim of grief wilt thou slumber with me | D |
My mansion is damp cold silence is there | E |
But it lulls in oblivion the fiends of despair | E |
Not a groan of regret not a sigh not a breath | A |
Dares dispute with grim Silence the empire of Death | A |
I offer a calm habitation to thee | D |
Say victim of grief wilt thou slumber with me | D |
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MORTAL | F |
Mine eyelids are heavy my soul seeks repose | G |
It longs in thy cells to embosom its woes | G |
It longs in thy cells to deposit its load | H |
Where no longer the scorpions of Perfidy goad | H |
Where the phantoms of Prejudice vanish away | I |
And Bigotry's bloodhounds lose scent of their prey | I |
Yet tell me dark Death when thine empire is o'er | J |
What awaits on Futurity's mist covered shore | K |
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DEATH | A |
Cease cease wayward Mortal I dare not unveil | L |
The shadows that float o'er Eternity's vale | L |
Nought waits for the good but a spirit of Love | M |
That will hail their blest advent to regions above | M |
For Love Mortal gleams through the gloom of my sway | I |
And the shades which surround me fly fast at its ray | I |
Hast thou loved Then depart from these regions of hate | N |
And in slumber with me blunt the arrows of fate | N |
I offer a calm habitation to thee | D |
Say victim of grief wilt thou slumber with me | D |
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MORTAL | F |
Oh sweet is thy slumber oh sweet is the ray | I |
Which after thy night introduces the day | I |
How concealed how persuasive self interest s breath | A |
Though it floats to mine ear from the bosom of Death | A |
I hoped that I quite was forgotten by all | O |
Yet a lingering friend might be grieved at my fall | O |
And duty forbids though I languish to die | P |
When departure might heave Virtue s breast with a sigh | P |
O Death O my friend snatch this form to thy shrine | Q |
And I fear dear destroyer I shall not repine | Q |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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