The Choirmaster's Burial Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCBAEFFDEGHHH IJIKLLMMNNHHOHHLLO PQRPRSMQMSTT UU| He often would ask us | A |
| That when he died | B |
| After playing so many | C |
| To their last rest | D |
| If out of us any | C |
| Should here abide | B |
| And it would not task us | A |
| We would with our lutes | E |
| Play over him | F |
| By his grave brim | F |
| The psalm he liked best | D |
| The one whose sense suits | E |
| Mount Ephraim | G |
| And perhaps we should seem | H |
| To him in Death's dream | H |
| Like the seraphim | H |
| - | |
| As soon as I knew | I |
| That his spirit was gone | J |
| I thought this his due | I |
| And spoke thereupon | K |
| I think said the vicar | L |
| A read service quicker | L |
| Than viols out of doors | M |
| In these frosts and hoars | M |
| That old fashioned way | N |
| Requires a fine day | N |
| And it seems to me | H |
| It had better not be | H |
| Hence that afternoon | O |
| Though never knew he | H |
| That his wish could not be | H |
| To get through it faster | L |
| They buried the master | L |
| Without any tune | O |
| - | |
| But 'twas said that when | P |
| At the dead of next night | Q |
| The vicar looked out | R |
| There struck on his ken | P |
| Thronged roundabout | R |
| Where the frost was graying | S |
| The headstoned grass | M |
| A band all in white | Q |
| Like the saints in church glass | M |
| Singing and playing | S |
| The ancient stave | T |
| By the choirmaster's grave | T |
| - | |
| Such the tenor man told | U |
| When he had grown old | U |
Thomas Hardy
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