Two Graves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEE FFGGCD HHIIJJKK A BBLLMM NNJJOP QQRRSSTU| First Ghost | A |
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| To sepulcher my mouldy bones | B |
| I bough a pile of noble stones | B |
| And half a year a sculptor spent | C |
| To hew my marble monument | D |
| The stateliest to rear its head | E |
| In all this city of the dead | E |
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| And generations passing through | F |
| Will gape and ask What did he do | F |
| To earn this tomb so rich and rare | G |
| In Attic grace beyond compare | G |
| How was his life in honour spent | C |
| To worthy this proud monument | D |
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| What did I do Well nothing much | H |
| 'Tis true I had the Midas touch | H |
| A million pounds I made wherewith | I |
| To glorify the name John Smith | I |
| Yet not a soul wept for me when | J |
| Death raft me from my fellow men | J |
| My sculptor wins undying fame | K |
| While I who paid am just a name | K |
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| Second Ghost | A |
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| A wooden cross surveys my bones | B |
| With on it stenciled Peter Jones | B |
| And round it are five hundred more | L |
| A proper job did old man War | L |
| So young they were so fresh so fit | M |
| So hopeful that's the hell of it | M |
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| The old are sapped and ripe to die | N |
| But in the flush of Spring was I | N |
| I might have fathered children ten | J |
| To come to grips with sterling men | J |
| And now a cross in weeds to rot | O |
| Is all to show how fierce I fought | P |
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| The old default the young must pay | Q |
| My life was wasted thrown away | Q |
| While people gladden to forget | R |
| The bitterness of vein regret | R |
| With not a soul to morn for me | S |
| My skull grins up in mockery | S |
| Pale crosses greet the grieving stars | T |
| And always will be War and Wars | U |
Robert Service
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