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