Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DEFDGG HIJHKK LMMLNO PQQPRR HSSHOO NTTNUU VWWVXX YZZYA2A2 B2EC2B2D2D2| If days should pass without a written word | A |
| To tell me of thy welfare and if days | B |
| Should lengthen out to weeks until the maze | B |
| Of questioning fears confused me and I heard | A |
| Life sounds as echoes and one came and said | C |
| After these weeks of waiting He is dead | C |
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| Though the quick sword had found the vital part | D |
| And the life blood must mingle with the tears | E |
| I think that as the dying soldier hears | F |
| The cries of victory and feels his heart | D |
| Surge with his country's triumph hour I could | G |
| Hope bravely on and feel that God was good | G |
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| I could take up my thread of life again | H |
| And weave my pattern though the colors were | I |
| Faded forever Though I might not dare | J |
| Dream often of thee I should know that when | H |
| Death came to thee upon thy lips my name | K |
| Lingered and lingers ever without blame | K |
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| Aye lingers ever Though we may not know | L |
| Much that our spirits crave yet is it given | M |
| To us to feel that in the waiting Heaven | M |
| Great souls are greater and if God bestow | L |
| A mighty love He will not let it die | N |
| Through the vast ages of eternity | O |
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| But if some day the bitter knowledge swept | P |
| Down on my life bearing my treasured freight | Q |
| To founder on the shoals of scorn what Fate | Q |
| Smiling with awful irony had kept | P |
| Till life grew sweeter that my god was clay | R |
| That 'neath thy strength a lurking weakness lay | R |
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| That thou whom I had deemed a man of men | H |
| Faulty as great men are but with no taint | S |
| Of baseness with those faults that shew the saint | S |
| Of after days perhaps wert even then | H |
| When first I loved thee but a spreading tree | O |
| Whose leaves shewed not its roots' deformity | O |
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| I should not weep for there are wounds that lie | N |
| Too deep for tears and Death is but a friend | T |
| Who loves too dearly and the parting end | T |
| Of Love's joy day a paltry pain a cry | N |
| To God then peace beside the torturing grief | U |
| When honor dies and trust and soul's belief | U |
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| Travellers have told that in the Java isles | V |
| The upas tree breathes its dread vapor out | W |
| Into the air there needs no hand about | W |
| Its branches for the poison's deadly wiles | V |
| To work a strong man's hurt for there is death | X |
| Envenomed noisome in his every breath | X |
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| So would I breathe thy poison in my soul | Y |
| Till all that had been wholesome pure and true | Z |
| Shewed its decay and stained and wasted grew | Z |
| Though sundered as the distant Northern Pole | Y |
| From his far sister I should bear thy blight | A2 |
| Upon me as I passed into the night | A2 |
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| Didst dream thy truth and honor meant so much | B2 |
| To me Dear Heart Oh I am full of tears | E |
| To night of longing love and foolish fears | C2 |
| Would I might see thee know thy tender touch | B2 |
| For Time is long and though I may not will | D2 |
| To question Fate I am a woman still | D2 |
Sophie M. (almon) Hensley
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