Rain On A Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBAACB ADBDAEEBE AAAAAAAAA FGFGHHAAG B| Clouds spout upon her | A |
| Their waters amain | B |
| In ruthless disdain | B |
| Her who but lately | C |
| Had shivered with pain | B |
| As at touch of dishonour | A |
| If there had lit on her | A |
| So coldly so straightly | C |
| Such arrows of rain | B |
| - | |
| She who to shelter | A |
| Her delicate head | D |
| Would quicken and quicken | B |
| Each tentative tread | D |
| If drops chanced to pelt her | A |
| That summertime spills | E |
| In dust paven rills | E |
| When thunder clouds thicken | B |
| And birds close their bills | E |
| - | |
| Would that I lay there | A |
| And she were housed here | A |
| Or better together | A |
| Were folded away there | A |
| Exposed to one weather | A |
| We both who would stray there | A |
| When sunny the day there | A |
| Or evening was clear | A |
| At the prime of the year | A |
| - | |
| Soon will be growing | F |
| Green blades from her mound | G |
| And daises be showing | F |
| Like stars on the ground | G |
| Till she form part of them | H |
| Ay the sweet heart of them | H |
| Loved beyond measure | A |
| With a child's pleasure | A |
| All her life's round | G |
| - | |
| Jan | B |
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