Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCD AEFFF AGHHHG AIJJKI ALMMML ANOOON| Ah are you digging on my grave | A |
| My loved one planting rue | B |
| No yesterday he went to wed | C |
| One of the brightest wealth has bred | C |
| 'It cannot hurt her now ' he said | C |
| 'That I should not be true ' | D |
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| Then who is digging on my grave | A |
| My nearest dearest kin | E |
| Ah no they sit and think 'What use | F |
| What good will planting flowers produce | F |
| No tendance of her mound can loose | F |
| Her spirit from Death's gin ' | - |
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| But someone digs upon my grave | A |
| My enemy prodding sly | G |
| Nay when she heard you had passed the Gate | H |
| That shuts on all flesh soon or late | H |
| She thought you no more worth her hate | H |
| And cares not where you lie | G |
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| Then who is digging on my grave | A |
| Say since I have not guessed | I |
| O it is I my mistress dear | J |
| Your little dog who still lives near | J |
| And much I hope my movements here | K |
| Have not disturbed your rest | I |
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| Ah yes You dig upon my grave | A |
| Why flashed it not to me | L |
| That one true heart was left behind | M |
| What feeling do we ever find | M |
| To equal among human kind | M |
| A dog's fidelity | L |
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| Mistress I dug upon your grave | A |
| To bury a bone in case | N |
| I should be hungry near this spot | O |
| When passing on my daily trot | O |
| I am sorry but I quite forgot | O |
| It was your resting place | N |
Thomas Hardy
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