In Nunhead Cemetery

It is considered the least famous of the seven, possibly owing to difficulties of access, although there is a railway station (Nunhead) nearby, presumably the one referenced in the poem.

He then begins to recall memories of his fiancée, starting a week prior to the funeral, suggesting that the death occurred suddenly.

His fiancée seems to have been an adherent of folk beliefs, as she believed the seagulls to be the spirits of sea captains and the square's bronze lion sculptures to be watching over London.

He remembers being a little boy at Christmas time, how happy he was and how he used to pray for God to keep him safe at night, but now he is afraid and he has decided to stay with his fiancée in the graveyard, so she can help him sleep.

The rhyme scheme of the poem starts off with a fairly regular ABAB and changes with the 5th verse, which is also where the narrator's tone changes as he tries to deny that any of this is really happening.