Face In The Tomb That Lies So Still Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFCF GHIH JKLK MNON PQPRRSS TUTU| Face in the tomb that lies so still | A |
| May I draw near | B |
| And watch your sleep and love you | C |
| Without word or tear | D |
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| You smile your eyelids flicker | E |
| Shall I tell | F |
| How the world goes that lost you | C |
| Shall I tell | F |
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| Ah love lift not your eyelids | G |
| 'Tis the same | H |
| Old story that we laughed at | I |
| Still the same | H |
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| We knew it you and I | J |
| We knew it all | K |
| Still is the small the great | L |
| The great the small | K |
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| Still the cold lie quenches | M |
| The flaming truth | N |
| And still embattled age | O |
| Wars against youth | N |
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| Yet I believe still in the ever living God | P |
| That fills your grave with perfume | Q |
| Writing your name in violets across the sod | P |
| Shielding your holy face from hail and snow | R |
| And though the withered stay the lovely go | R |
| No transitory wrong or wrath of things | S |
| Shatters the faith that each slow minute brings | S |
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| That meadow nearer to us where your feet | T |
| Shall flicker near me like white butterflies | U |
| That meadow where immortal lovers meet | T |
| Gazing for ever in immortal eyes | U |
Richard Le Gallienne
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