The Death-bed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JFJF| We watch'd her breathing thro' the night | A |
| Her breathing soft and low | B |
| As in her breast the wave of life | C |
| Kept heaving to and fro | B |
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| So silently we seem'd to speak | D |
| So slowly moved about | E |
| As we had lent her half our powers | F |
| To eke her living out | E |
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| Our very hopes belied our fears | G |
| Our fears our hopes belied | H |
| We thought her dying when she slept | I |
| And sleeping when she died | H |
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| For when the morn came dim and sad | J |
| And chill with early showers | F |
| Her quiet eyelids closed she had | J |
| Another morn than ours | F |
Thomas Hood
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