William Lisle Bowles

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On The Funeral Of Charles The First Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIAI JKJK LMLM NONO PQPR

The castle clock had tolled midnightA
With mattock and with spadeB
And silent by the torches' lightA
His corse in earth we laidB
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The coffin bore his name that thoseC
Of other years might knowD
When earth its secrets should discloseC
Whose bones were laid belowD
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Peace to the dead no children sungE
Slow pacing up the naveF
No prayers were read no knell was rungE
As deep we dug his graveF
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We only heard the winter's windG
In many a sullen gustH
As o'er the open grave inclinedG
We murmured Dust to dustH
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A moonbeam from the arch's heightA
Streamed as we placed the stoneI
The long aisles started into lightA
And all the windows shoneI
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We thought we saw the banners thenJ
That shook along the wallsK
Whilst the sad shades of mail egrave d menJ
Were gazing on the stallsK
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'Tis gone again on tombs defacedL
Sits darkness more profoundM
And only by the torch we tracedL
The shadows on the groundM
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And now the chilling freezing airN
Without blew long and loudO
Upon our knees we breathed one prayerN
Where he slept in his shroudO
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We laid the broken marble floorP
No name no trace appearsQ
And when we closed the sounding doorP
We thought of him with tearsR

William Lisle Bowles



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