Spoils Of The Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGBG HIJI KLML NIII OIPI QLRL SIII SIIITwo fairies it was | A |
On a still summer day | B |
Came forth in the woods | C |
With the flowers to play | B |
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The flowers they plucked | D |
They cast on the ground | E |
For others and those | F |
For still others they found | E |
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Flower guided it was | A |
That they came as they ran | G |
On something that lay | B |
In the shape of a man | G |
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The snow must have made | H |
The feathery bed | I |
When this one fell | J |
On the sleep of the dead | I |
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But the snow was gone | K |
A long time ago | L |
And the body he wore | M |
Nigh gone with the snow | L |
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The fairies drew near | N |
And keenly espied | I |
A ring on his hand | I |
And a chain at his side | I |
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They knelt in the leaves | O |
And eerily played | I |
With the glittering things | P |
And were not afraid | I |
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And when they went home | Q |
To hide in their burrow | L |
They took them along | R |
To play with to morrow | L |
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When you came on death | S |
Did you not come flower guided | I |
Like the elves in the wood | I |
I remember that I did | I |
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But I recognised death | S |
With sorrow and dread | I |
And I hated and hate | I |
The spoils of the dead | I |
Robert Frost
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