In Memoriam D. O. M Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKB| Chestnut candles are lit again | A |
| For the dead that died in spring | B |
| Dead lovers walk the orchard ways | C |
| And the dead cuckoos sing | B |
| - | |
| Is it they who live and we who are dead | D |
| Hardly the springtime knows | E |
| For which today the cuckoo calls | F |
| And the white blossom blows | E |
| - | |
| Listen and hear the happy wind | G |
| Whisper and lightly pass | H |
| 'Your love is sweet as hawthorn is | I |
| Your hope green as the grass | H |
| - | |
| 'The hawthorn's faint and quickly gone | J |
| The grass in autumn dies | K |
| Put by your life and see the spring | B |
| With everlasting eyes ' | - |
William Kerr
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