Oh, Ye Dead! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEED FGHHIJJK| Oh ye Dead oh ye Dead whom we know by the light you give | A |
| From your cold gleaming eyes though you move like men who live | B |
| Why leave you thus your graves | C |
| In far off fields and waves | C |
| Where the worm and the sea bird only know your bed | D |
| To haunt this spot where all | E |
| Those eyes that wept your fall | E |
| And the hearts that wail'd you like your own lie dead | D |
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| It is true it is true we are shadows cold and wan | F |
| And the fair and the brave whom we loved on earth are gone | G |
| But still thus even in death | H |
| So sweet the living breath | H |
| Of the fields and the flowers in our youth we wander'd o'er | I |
| That ere condemn'd we go | J |
| To freeze 'mid Hecla's snow | J |
| We would taste it a while and think we live once more | K |
Thomas Moore
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