On A Wife's Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFGGHH IIJJJKK| With death's dark eye acquainted she had been made ere this | A |
| When to her son her first born she gave the farewell kiss | A |
| And when afar she hastened beside her mother's bed | B |
| It followed all her faring with warning fraught and dread | B |
| It filled her with foreboding when standing by the bier | C |
| More sheaves to gather hopeth the harvester austere | D |
| So soon she saw her husband that man of strength succumb | E |
| She said with sorrow stricken I knew that it would come ' | F |
| She thought that he was chosen by God from earth to go | G |
| Would check her hands upthrusting the harsh behest of woe | G |
| And with her slender body too weak for such a strife | H |
| Would ward her gallant consort and gave for him her life | H |
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| She smiled serene and blissful as death's dark eye she braved | I |
| Her sacrifice was given her heart's proud hero saved | I |
| Our love and admiration lifted a starry dome | J |
| Of happiness above her in life's last hour of gloam | J |
| And snow white pure she passed then to her eternal home | J |
| Such tender love and holy to heaven's bounds can bear | K |
| The souls that it embraces in sacrifice and prayer | K |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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