The Funeral Rites Of The Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBAACCDDAAEE| The Rose was sick and smiling died | A |
| And being to be sanctified | A |
| About the bed there sighing stood | A |
| The sweet and flowery sisterhood | A |
| Some hung the head while some did bring | B |
| To wash her water from the spring | B |
| Some laid her forth while others wept | A |
| But all a solemn fast there kept | A |
| The holy sisters some among | C |
| The sacred dirge and trental sung | C |
| But ah what sweet smelt everywhere | D |
| As Heaven had spent all perfumes there | D |
| At last when prayers for the dead | A |
| And rites were all accomplish egrave d | A |
| They weeping spread a lawny loom | E |
| And closed her up as in a tomb | E |
Robert Herrick
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