The Dead And The Living One Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BCD EEE FFF GGH III JJ EEE KKL MMM NNN OOO PPP| The dead woman lay in her first night's grave | A |
| And twilight fell from the clouds' concave | A |
| And those she had asked to forgive forgave | A |
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| The woman passing came to a pause | B |
| By the heaped white shapes of wreath and cross | C |
| And looked upon where the other was | D |
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| And as she mused there thus spoke she | E |
| Never your countenance did I see | E |
| But you've been a good good friend to me | E |
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| Rose a plaintive voice from the sod below | F |
| O woman whose accents I do not know | F |
| What is it that makes you approve me so | F |
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| O dead one ere my soldier went | G |
| I heard him saying with warm intent | G |
| To his friend when won by your blandishment | H |
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| 'I would change for that lass here and now | I |
| And if I return I may break my vow | I |
| To my present Love and contrive somehow | I |
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| 'To call my own this new found pearl | J |
| Whose eyes have the light whose lips the curl | J |
| I always have looked for in a girl ' | - |
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| And this is why that by ceasing to be | E |
| Though never your countenance did I see | E |
| You prove you a good good friend to me | E |
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| And I pray each hour for your soul's repose | K |
| In gratitude for your joining those | K |
| No lover will clasp when his campaigns close | L |
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| Away she turned when arose to her eye | M |
| A martial phantom of gory dye | M |
| That said with a thin and far off sigh | M |
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| O sweetheart neither shall I clasp you | N |
| For the foe this day has pierced me through | N |
| And sent me to where she is Adieu | N |
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| And forget not when the night wind's whine | O |
| Calls over this turf where her limbs recline | O |
| That it travels on to lament by mine | O |
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| There was a cry by the white flowered mound | P |
| There was a laugh from underground | P |
| There was a deeper gloom around | P |
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Thomas Hardy
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