In Memoriam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF HIJI KLML NHOH PQRQ STUT VLWL XHYH LSZS A2B2VB2 HQGQ C2D2FD2 QVE2V| He asked life of thee and thou gavest him a long life even for ever and ever | A |
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| Life length of days the time to work and strive | B |
| In his Lord's vineyard to bring heavenly light | C |
| Into the drear dark places of the earth | D |
| And make them fair and fruitful in His sight | C |
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| Life it seem'd all so bright and beautiful once | E |
| It lay spread out before his kindling eyes | F |
| A land of sunny hills in white mist veil'd | G |
| Of sweet green valleys under summer skies | F |
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| Such tender light and tender shadows there | H |
| No dazzling blaze no savage blots of gloom | I |
| No keen cut outline of the barren cliff | J |
| No glaring waste but all one gentle bloom | I |
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| Of happy innocent hope a morning tint | K |
| Of pearly grey and gold with just a shade | L |
| Of bright cloud colour giving life to it | M |
| He saw not then the havoc death had made | L |
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| But soon the white mist melted in the heat | N |
| Of noonday and the wasted fields lay bare | H |
| Vineyard of Eden like a bright face scarred | O |
| With sin and shame and weariness and care | H |
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| And his vague aspiration took a shape | P |
| Grant me dear Lord if it seem good to Thee | Q |
| To labour here with manhood's utter strength | R |
| O Lord good Lord intrust this work to me | Q |
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| Let me have time to toil a long long day | S |
| To dig and delve and root out wasteful weeds | T |
| To cut down briars and thorns and help to plough | U |
| Furrows where angels may sow heavenly seeds | T |
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| Give me to foster with my faith and love | V |
| Frail early flowers that fear to droop and fade | L |
| Father I will not shrink for bleeding hands | W |
| For heat nor cold I do not feel afraid | L |
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| His voice was heard his will accepted God | X |
| Gave deep and true fulfilment to his prayer | H |
| Life life eternal which should nevermore | Y |
| The taint of death or sin or sorrow bear | H |
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| Oh pray ye blind ones as the beggar pray'd | L |
| When He of Nazareth pass'd by Oh pray | S |
| With simple faith and worship fear ye not | Z |
| God's gracious ear will deafly turn away | S |
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| Ye know He bids us to tell out our wants | A2 |
| Knowing them all give up to Him your will | B2 |
| And trust Him trust Him In his wondrous love | V |
| He deigns the lowliest longing to fulfil | B2 |
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| Ay and with that fulfilment which we ne'er | H |
| Shall grasp or fathom till we come to see | Q |
| Our strange mysterious human life unveil'd | G |
| In the clear daylight of eternity | Q |
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| The beggar ask'd for sight Christ answer'd him | C2 |
| For his faith's sake and gave him sight indeed | D2 |
| Just so his silent hands and darken'd eyes | F |
| Were lifted once for grace of life to plead | D2 |
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| And God fulfilled his prayer as utterly | Q |
| He gave him life the life of saints above | V |
| Beyond all earthly dreaming sweet and glad | E2 |
| An endless life in His eternal love | V |
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