On A Young Poetess-s Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG AHAH IEIE| UNDER her gentle seeing | A |
| In her delicate little hand | B |
| They placed the Book of Being | A |
| To read and understand | B |
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| The Book was mighty and olden | C |
| Yea worn and eaten with age | D |
| Though the letters look d great and golden | C |
| She could not read a page | D |
| - | |
| The letters flutter d before her | E |
| And all look d sweetly wild | F |
| Death saw her and bent o er her | E |
| As she pouted her lips and smil d | G |
| - | |
| And weary a little with tracing | A |
| The Book she look d aside | H |
| And lightly smiling and placing | A |
| A Flower in its leaves she died | H |
| - | |
| She died but her sweetness fled not | I |
| As fly the things of power | E |
| For the Book wherein she read not | I |
| Is the sweeter for the Flower | E |
William Cosmo Monkhouse
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