Sonnet: Oh! Death Will Find Me, Long Before I Tire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HH| Oh Death will find me long before I tire | A |
| Of watching you and swing me suddenly | B |
| Into the shade and loneliness and mire | C |
| Of the last land There waiting patiently | B |
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| One day I think I ll feel a cool wind blowing | D |
| See a slow light across the Stygian tide | E |
| And hear the Dead about me stir unknowing | D |
| And tremble And I shall know that you have died | E |
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| And watch you a broad browed and smiling dream | F |
| Pass light as ever through the lightless host | G |
| Quietly ponder start and sway and gleam | F |
| Most individual and bewildering ghost | G |
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| And turn and toss your brown delightful head | H |
| Amusedly among the ancient Dead | H |
Rupert Brooke
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