On Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFEFGG HIHIGG JGKGLL MNOPGG| The pale the cold and the moony smile | A |
| Which the meteor beam of a starless night | B |
| Sheds on a lonely and sea girt isle | A |
| Ere the dawning of morn's undoubted light | B |
| Is the flame of life so fickle and wan | C |
| That flits round our steps till their strength is gone | D |
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| O man hold thee on in courage of soul | E |
| Through the stormy shades of thy wordly way | F |
| And the billows of clouds that around thee roll | E |
| Shall sleep in the light of a wondrous day | F |
| Where hell and heaven shall leave thee free | G |
| To the universe of destiny | G |
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| This world is the nurse of all we know | H |
| This world is the mother of all we feel | I |
| And the coming of death is a fearful blow | H |
| To a brain unencompass'd by nerves of steel | I |
| When all that we know or feel or see | G |
| Shall pass like an unreal mystery | G |
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| The secret things of the grave are there | J |
| Where all but this frame must surely be | G |
| Though the fine wrought eye and the wondrous ear | K |
| No longer will live to hear or to see | G |
| All that is great and all that is strange | L |
| In the boundless realm of unending change | L |
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| Who telleth a tale of unspeaking death | M |
| Who lifteth the veil of what is to come | N |
| Who painteth the shadows that are beneath | O |
| The wide winding caves of the peopled tomb | P |
| Or uniteth the hopes of what shall be | G |
| With the fears and the love for that which we see | G |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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