A Few Lines On Completing Forty-seven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI| When I reflect with serious sense | A |
| While years and years run on | B |
| How soon I may be summoned hence | A |
| There's cook a calling John | B |
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| Our lives are built so frail and poor | C |
| On sand and not on rocks | D |
| We're hourly standing at Death's door | E |
| There's some one double knocks | D |
| - | |
| All human days have settled terms | F |
| Our fates we cannot force | G |
| This flesh of mine will feed the worms | F |
| They're come to lunch of course | G |
| - | |
| And when my body's turned to clay | H |
| And dear friends hear my knell | I |
| Oh let them give a sigh and say | H |
| I hear the upstairs bell | I |
Thomas Hood
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