A Few Lines On Completing Forty-seven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHIWhen 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 |
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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 |
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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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