The Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HH| How shall the living be comforted for the dead | A |
| When they are gone and nothing's left behind | B |
| But a vague music of the words they said | A |
| And a fast fading image in the mind | B |
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| Let no forgetting sully that dim grace | C |
| Our heart's infirmity is too easily won | D |
| To set a new love in the old love's place | C |
| And seek fresh vanity under the sun | D |
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| Time brings to us at last as night the stars | E |
| The starry silence of eternity | F |
| For there is no discharge in our long wars | G |
| Nor balm for wounds nor love's security | F |
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| Be patient to the end and you shall sleep | H |
| Pillowed on heartsease and forget to weep | H |
William Kerr
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