Threnody Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCB A DADAD A EFEFE| I | A |
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| Upon your hearse this flower I lay | B |
| Brief be your sleep You shall be known | C |
| When lesser men have had their day | B |
| Fame blossoms where true seed is sown | C |
| Or soon or late let Time wound what it may | B |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| Unvext by any dream of fame | D |
| You smiled and bade the world pass by | A |
| But I I turned and saw a name | D |
| Shaping itself against the sky | A |
| White star that rose amid the battle's flame | D |
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| III | A |
| - | |
| Brief be your sleep for I would see | E |
| Your laurels ah how trivial now | F |
| To him must earthly laurel be | E |
| Who wears the amaranth on his brow | F |
| How vain the voices of mortality | E |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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