The Young That Died In Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCCD EEFFFGGF HHFFFIIF BBJKKBBF LLKKKMMF| If souls should only sheen so bright | A |
| In heaven as in e'thly light | A |
| An' nothen better wer the cease | B |
| How comely still in sheape an' feace | B |
| Would many reach thik happy pleace | B |
| The hopevul souls that in their prime | C |
| Ha' seem'd a took avore their time | C |
| The young that died in beauty | D |
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| But when woone's lim's ha' lost their strangth | E |
| A tweilen drough a lifetime's langth | E |
| An' over cheaks a growen wold | F |
| The slowly weasten years ha' roll'd | F |
| The deep'nen wrinkle's hollow vwold | F |
| When life is ripe then death do call | G |
| Vor less ov thought than when do vall | G |
| On young vo'ks in their beauty | F |
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| But pinen souls wi' heads a hung | H |
| In heavy sorrow vor the young | H |
| The sister ov the brother dead | F |
| The father wi' a child a vled | F |
| The husband when his bride ha' laid | F |
| Her head at rest noo mwore to turn | I |
| Have all a vound the time to murn | I |
| Vor youth that died in beauty | F |
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| An' yeet the church where prayer do rise | B |
| Vrom thoughtvul souls wi' downcast eyes | B |
| An' village greens a beat half beare | J |
| By dancers that do meet an' wear | K |
| Such merry looks at feast an' feair | K |
| Do gather under leatest skies | B |
| Their bloomen cheaks an' sparklen eyes | B |
| Though young ha' died in beauty | F |
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| But still the dead shall mwore than keep | L |
| The beauty ov their early sleep | L |
| Where comely looks shall never wear | K |
| Uncomely under tweil an' ceare | K |
| The feair at death be always feair | K |
| Still feair to livers' thought an' love | M |
| An' feairer still to God above | M |
| Than when they died in beauty | F |
William Barnes
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