On William Sommers Of Bremhill. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDECFFGFGFHIIHJJ KFLFAA| When will the grave shelter thy few gray hairs | A |
| O aged man Thy sand is almost run | B |
| And many a year in vain to meet the sun | B |
| Thine eyes have rolled in darkness want and cares | A |
| Have been thy visitants from morn to morn | C |
| While trembling on existence thou dost live | D |
| Accept what human charity can give | E |
| But standing thus time palsied and forlorn | C |
| Like a scathed oak of all its boughs bereft | F |
| God and the grave are thy best refuge left | F |
| When the bells rung and summer's smiling ray | G |
| Welcomed again the merry Whitsuntide | F |
| And all my humble villagers were gay | G |
| I saw thee sitting on the highway side | F |
| To feel once more the warm sun's blessed beam | H |
| Didst thou then think upon thy own gay prime | I |
| On such a holiday and the glad time | I |
| When thou wert young and happy like a dream | H |
| Now perished No the murmured prayer alone | J |
| Rose from the trembling lips towards the Throne | J |
| Of Mercy that ere spring returned again | K |
| And the long winter blew its dreary blast | F |
| To sweep the verdure from the fading plain | L |
| Thy burden would be dropped thy sorrows past | F |
| O blind and aged man bowed down with cares | A |
| When will the grave shelter thy few gray hairs | A |
William Lisle Bowles
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