London Stone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ABCB DBDB EBF GBGB HBIB JBJB KBK B| WHEN you come to London Town | A |
| Grieving grieving | B |
| Bring your flowers and lay them down | A |
| At the place of grieving | B |
| - | |
| When you come to London Town | A |
| Grieving grieving | B |
| Bow your head and mourn your own | C |
| With the others grieving | B |
| - | |
| For those minutes let it wake | D |
| Grieving grieving | B |
| All the empty heart and ache | D |
| That is not cured by grieving | B |
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| For those minutes tell no lie | E |
| Grieving grieving | B |
| 'Grave this is thy victory | F |
| And the sting of death is grieving ' | - |
| - | |
| Where's our help from earth or heaven | G |
| Grieving grieving | B |
| To comfort us for what we've given | G |
| And only gained the grieving | B |
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| Heaven's too far and earth too near | H |
| Grieving grieving | B |
| But our neighbour's standing here | I |
| Grieving as we're grieving | B |
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| What's his burden every day | J |
| Grieving grieving | B |
| Nothing man can count or weigh | J |
| But loss and love's own grieving | B |
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| What is the tie betwixt us two | K |
| Grieving grieving | B |
| That must last our whole lives through | K |
| 'As I suffer so do you ' | - |
| That may ease the grieving | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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