A Death Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC ADADCC BEBECC BFBFCC| What cometh here from west to east awending | A |
| And who are these the marchers stern and slow | B |
| We bear the message that the rich are sending | A |
| Aback to those who bade them wake and know | B |
| Not one not one nor thousands must they slay | C |
| But one and all if they would dusk the day | C |
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| We asked them for a life of toilsome earning | A |
| They bade us bide their leisure for our bread | D |
| We craved to speak to tell our woeful learning | A |
| We come back speechless bearing back our dead | D |
| Not one not one nor thousands must they slay | C |
| But one and all if they would dusk the day | C |
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| They will not learn they have no ears to hearken | B |
| They turn their faces from the eyes of fate | E |
| Their gay lit halls shut out the skies that darken | B |
| But lo this dead man knocking at the gate | E |
| Not one not one nor thousands must they slay | C |
| But one and all if they would dusk the day | C |
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| Here lies the sign that we shall break our prison | B |
| Amidst the storm he won a prisoner's rest | F |
| But in the cloudy dawn the sun arisen | B |
| Brings us our day of work to win the best | F |
| Not one not one nor thousands must they slay | C |
| But one and all if they would dusk the day | C |
William Morris
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