Spoils Of The Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGBG HIJI KLML NIII OIPI QLRL SIII SIII

Two fairies it wasA
On a still summer dayB
Came forth in the woodsC
With the flowers to playB
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The flowers they pluckedD
They cast on the groundE
For others and thoseF
For still others they foundE
-
Flower guided it wasA
That they came as they ranG
On something that layB
In the shape of a manG
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The snow must have madeH
The feathery bedI
When this one fellJ
On the sleep of the deadI
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But the snow was goneK
A long time agoL
And the body he woreM
Nigh gone with the snowL
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The fairies drew nearN
And keenly espiedI
A ring on his handI
And a chain at his sideI
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They knelt in the leavesO
And eerily playedI
With the glittering thingsP
And were not afraidI
-
And when they went homeQ
To hide in their burrowL
They took them alongR
To play with to morrowL
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When you came on deathS
Did you not come flower guidedI
Like the elves in the woodI
I remember that I didI
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But I recognised deathS
With sorrow and dreadI
And I hated and hateI
The spoils of the deadI

Robert Frost



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