M * * * Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM IMIM NBNB OPOP QMQM RJRJ STST UAQA OVOV WMWM JXJX QYQY| When I am dead and all will soon forget | A |
| My words and face and ways | B |
| I somehow think I'll walk beside thee yet | A |
| Adown thy after days | B |
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| I die first and you will see my grave | C |
| But child you must not cry | D |
| For my dead hand will brightest blessings wave | C |
| O'er you from yonder sky | D |
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| You must not weep I believe I'd hear your tears | E |
| Tho' sleeping in a tomb | F |
| My rest would not be rest if in your years | G |
| There floated clouds of gloom | F |
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| For from the first your soul was dear to mine | H |
| And dearer it became | I |
| Until my soul in every prayer would twine | H |
| Thy name my child thy name | I |
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| You came to me in girlhood pure and fair | J |
| And in your soul and face | K |
| I saw a likeness to another there | J |
| In every trace and grace | K |
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| You came to me in girlhood and you brought | L |
| An image back to me | M |
| No matter what or whose I often sought | L |
| Another's soul in thee | M |
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| Didst ever mark how sometimes I became | I |
| Gentle though I be | M |
| Gentler than ever when I called thy name | I |
| Gentlest to thee | M |
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| You came to me in girlhood as your guide | N |
| I watched your spirit's ways | B |
| We walked God's holy valleys side by side | N |
| And so went on the days | B |
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| And so went on the years 'tis five and more | O |
| Your soul is fairer now | P |
| A light as of a sunset on a shore | O |
| Is falling on my brow | P |
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| Is falling soon to fade when I am dead | Q |
| Think this my child of me | M |
| I never said I never could have said | Q |
| Ungentle words to thee | M |
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| I treated you as I would treat a flower | R |
| I watched you with such care | J |
| And from my lips God heard in many an hour | R |
| Your name in many a prayer | J |
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| I watched the flower's growth so fair it grew | S |
| On not a leaf a stain | T |
| Your soul to purest thoughts so sweetly true | S |
| I did not watch in vain | T |
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| I guide you still in my steps you tread still | U |
| Towards God these ways are set | A |
| 'Twill soon be over child when I am dead | Q |
| I'll watch and guide you yet | A |
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| 'Tis better far that I should go before | O |
| And you awhile should stay | V |
| But I will wait upon the golden shore | O |
| To meet my child some day | V |
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| When I am dead in some lone after time | W |
| If crosses come to thee | M |
| You'll think remembering this simple rhyme | W |
| He holds a crown for me | M |
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| I guide you here I go before you there | J |
| But here or there I know | X |
| Whether the roses or the thorny crown you wear | J |
| I'll watch where'er you go | X |
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| And wait until you come when I am dead | Q |
| Think sometimes child of this | Y |
| You must not weep follow where I led | Q |
| I wait for you in bliss | Y |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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