On The Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST U MVMVVMVW| Yes in this chancel once we sat alone | A |
| O Dorothea thou wert bright with youth | B |
| Freshness like Morning's dwelt upon thy cheek | C |
| While here and there above the level pews | D |
| Above the housings of the village dames | E |
| The musky fan its groves and zephyrs waved | F |
| I know not why since we had each our book | G |
| And lookt upon it stedfastly first one | H |
| Outran the learned labourer from the desk | I |
| Then tript the other and limpt far behind | J |
| And smiles gave blushes birth and blushes smiles | K |
| Ah me where are they flown my lovely friend | L |
| Two seasons like that season thou hast lain | M |
| Cold as the dark blue stone beneath my feet | N |
| While my heart beats as then but not with joy | O |
| O my lost friends why were ye once so dear | P |
| And why were ye not fewer O ye few | Q |
| Must winter spring and summer thus return | R |
| Commemorating some one torn away | S |
| Till half the months at last shall take with me | T |
| Their names from those upon your scatter'd graves | U |
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| She I love alas in vain | M |
| Floats before my slumbering eyes | V |
| When she comes she lulls my pain | M |
| When she goes what pangs arise | V |
| Thou whom love whom memory flies | V |
| Gentle Sleep prolong thy reign | M |
| If even thus she soothe my sighs | V |
| Never let me wake again | W |
Walter Savage Landor
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