Dust To Dust Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB CDD EFG HIH JJJHeavenly Archer bend thy bow | A |
Now the flame of life burns low | B |
Youth is gone I too would go | B |
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Even Fortune leads to this | C |
Harsh or kind at last she is | D |
Murderess of all ecstasies | D |
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Yet the spirit dark alone | E |
Bound in sense still hearkens on | F |
For tidings of a bliss foregone | G |
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Sleep is well for dreamless head | H |
At no breath astonish d | I |
From the Gardens of the Dead | H |
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I the immortal harps hear ring | J |
By Babylon's river languishing | J |
Heavenly Archer loose thy string | J |
Walter De La Mare
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