Only A Box Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDD EEFF GGHH IJKK LLMM FFNO CCPP| From Arthur Selwyn's Note book | A |
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| Only A Box | B |
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| Only a box secure and strong | C |
| Rough and wooden and six feet long | C |
| Lying here in the drizzling rain | D |
| Waiting to take the up bound train | D |
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| Only its owner just inside | E |
| Cold and livid and glassy eyed | E |
| Little to him if the train be late | F |
| Nothing has he to do but wait | F |
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| Only an open grave somewhere | G |
| Heady to close when he gets there | G |
| Turfs and grasses and flowerets sweet | H |
| Ready to press him 'neath their feet | H |
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| Only a band of friends at home | I |
| Waiting to see the traveller come | J |
| Naught he will tell of distant lands | K |
| He cannot even press their hands | K |
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| He has no stories weird and bright | L |
| He has no gifts for a child's delight | L |
| He did not come with anything | M |
| He had not even himself to bring | M |
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| Yet they will softly him await | F |
| And he will move about in state | F |
| They will give him when he appears | N |
| Love and pity and tender tears | O |
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| Only a box secure and strong | C |
| Rough and wooden and six feet long | C |
| Angels guide that soulless breast | P |
| Into a long and peaceful rest | P |
William Mckendree Carleton
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