A Mountain Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDDAEEF GGFFHHII B| Why fear to die | A |
| And let thy body lie | A |
| Under the flowers of June | B |
| Thy body food | C |
| For the ground worms' brood | C |
| And thy grave smiled on by the visiting moon | B |
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| Amid great Nature's halls | D |
| Girt in by mountain walls | D |
| And washed with waterfalls | D |
| It would please me to die | A |
| Where every wind that swept my tomb | E |
| Goes loaded with a free perfume | E |
| Dealt out with a God's charity | F |
| - | |
| I should like to die in sweets | G |
| A hill's leaves for winding sheets | G |
| And the searching sun to see | F |
| That I am laid with decency | F |
| And the commissioned wind to sing | H |
| His mighty psalm from fall to spring | H |
| And annual tunes commemorate | I |
| Of Nature's child the common fate | I |
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| WILLIAMSTOWN VERMONT June | B |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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