Two Graves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEE FFGGCD HHIIJJKK A BBLLMM NNJJOP QQRRSSTUFirst 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 William Service
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