Poor Man's Grave. (from The Villager's Verse-book.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFH| Old Andrews of the hut is dead | A |
| And many a child appears | B |
| Whilst slowly dust to dust is read | A |
| Around his grave in tears | C |
| - | |
| A good man gone where small and great | D |
| And poor and high and low | E |
| And Dives proud in worldly state | D |
| And Lazarus must go | E |
| - | |
| May we among the just be found | F |
| Though short our sojourn here | G |
| Who when the trump of death shall sound | F |
| May hear it without fear | H |
William Lisle Bowles
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