Funeral Blues Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH| Stop all the clocks cut off the telephone | A |
| Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone | A |
| Silence the pianos and with muffled drum | B |
| Bring out the coffin let the mourners come | B |
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| Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead | C |
| Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead | C |
| Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves | D |
| Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves | D |
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| He was my North my South my East and West | E |
| My working week and my Sunday rest | E |
| My noon my midnight my talk my song | F |
| I thought that love would last forever I was wrong | F |
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| The stars are not wanted now put out every one | G |
| Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun | G |
| Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood | H |
| For nothing now can ever come to any good | H |
W. H. Auden
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