My Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE FGHHIIJJEE KKLLMMNNII EE| Shall they bury me in the deep | A |
| Where wind forgetting waters sleep | A |
| Shall they dig a grave for me | B |
| Under the green wood tree | B |
| Or on the wild heath | C |
| Where the wilder breath | D |
| Of the storm doth blow | E |
| Oh no oh no | E |
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| Shall they bury me in the Palace Tombs | F |
| Or under the shade of Cathedral domes | G |
| Sweet 'twere to lie on Italy's shore | H |
| Yet not there nor in Greece though I love it more | H |
| In the wolf or the vulture my grave shall I find | I |
| Shall my ashes career on the world seeing wind | I |
| Shall they fling my corpse in the battle mound | J |
| Where coffinless thousands lie under the ground | J |
| Just as they fall they are buried so | E |
| Oh no oh no | E |
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| No on an Irish green hill side | K |
| On an opening lawn but not too wide | K |
| For I love the drip of the wetted trees | L |
| I love not the gales but a gentle breeze | L |
| To freshen the turf put no tombstone there | M |
| But green sods decked with daisies fair | M |
| Nor sods too deep but so that the dew | N |
| The matted grass roots may trickle through | N |
| Be my epitaph writ on my country's mind | I |
| HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY AND LOVED HIS KIND | I |
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| Oh 'twere merry unto the grave to go | E |
| If one were sure to be buried so | E |
Thomas Osborne Davis
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