Now When The Number Of My Years Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBBBB DEFEBBBB GHIHBBBB| NOW when the number of my years | A |
| Is all fulfilled and I | B |
| From sedentary life | C |
| Shall rouse me up to die | B |
| Bury me low and let me lie | B |
| Under the wide and starry sky | B |
| Joying to live I joyed to die | B |
| Bury me low and let me lie | B |
| - | |
| Clear was my soul my deeds were free | D |
| Honour was called my name | E |
| I fell not back from fear | F |
| Nor followed after fame | E |
| Bury me low and let me lie | B |
| Under the wide and starry sky | B |
| Joying to live I joyed to die | B |
| Bury me low and let me lie | B |
| - | |
| Bury me low in valleys green | G |
| And where the milder breeze | H |
| Blows fresh along the stream | I |
| Sings roundly in the trees | H |
| Bury me low and let me lie | B |
| Under the wide and starry sky | B |
| Joying to live I joyed to die | B |
| Bury me low and let me lie | B |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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