The Choirmaster's Burial Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCBAEFFDEGHHH IJIKLLMMNNHHOHHLLO PQRPRSMQMSTT UUHe 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Such the tenor man told | U |
When he had grown old | U |
Thomas Hardy
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