A Dialogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEAADD FGGHHIIJK ALLMMIINNDD FIIAAOOPPQQ| DEATH | 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 |
| - | |
| 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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