The Old Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFGCB HIHH| They are waiting on the shore | A |
| For the bark to take them home | B |
| They will toil and grieve no more | A |
| The hour for release hath come | C |
| - | |
| All their long life lies behind | D |
| Like a dimly blending dream | E |
| There is nothing left to bind | D |
| To the realms that only seem | E |
| - | |
| They are waiting for the boat | F |
| There is nothing left to do | G |
| What was near them grows remote | F |
| Happy silence falls like dew | G |
| Now the shadowy bark is come | C |
| And the weary may go home | B |
| - | |
| By still water they would rest | H |
| In the shadow of the tree | I |
| After battle sleep is best | H |
| After noise tranquillity | H |
Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel
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