Sun-dial, In The Churchyard Of Bremhill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJL MNMO PQPQ| So passes silent o'er the dead thy shade | A |
| Brief Time and hour by hour and day by day | B |
| The pleasing pictures of the present fade | A |
| And like a summer vapour steal away | B |
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| And have not they who here forgotten lie | C |
| Say hoary chronicler of ages past | D |
| Once marked thy shadow with delighted eye | C |
| Nor thought it fled how certain and how fast | D |
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| Since thou hast stood and thus thy vigil kept | E |
| Noting each hour o'er mouldering stones beneath | F |
| The pastor and his flock alike have slept | E |
| And dust to dust proclaimed the stride of death | G |
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| Another race succeeds and counts the hour | H |
| Careless alike the hour still seems to smile | I |
| As hope and youth and life were in our power | H |
| So smiling and so perishing the while | I |
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| I heard the village bells with gladsome sound | J |
| When to these scenes a stranger I drew near | K |
| Proclaim the tidings to the village round | J |
| While memory wept upon the good man's bier | L |
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| Even so when I am dead shall the same bells | M |
| Ring merrily when my brief days are gone | N |
| While still the lapse of time thy shadow tells | M |
| And strangers gaze upon my humble stone | O |
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| Enough if we may wait in calm content | P |
| The hour that bears us to the silent sod | Q |
| Blameless improve the time that heaven has lent | P |
| And leave the issue to thy will O God | Q |
William Lisle Bowles
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