A Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCD DDDD EEED FFFG HHHI JJJK DDDD LLLM NNNO LLLD| Flowers in their freshness are flushing the earth | A |
| And the voice peopled forest is loud in its mirth | A |
| And streams in their fulness are laughing at dearth | A |
| Yet my bosom is aching | B |
| There s shadow on all things the shadow of woe | C |
| It falls from my spirit wherever I go | C |
| As from a dark cloud drifting heavy and slow | C |
| For my spirit is weary | D |
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| Ah what can be flowers in their gladness to me | D |
| Or the voices that people the green forest tree | D |
| Or the full joy of streams since my soul sighs ah me | D |
| O er the grave of my Mary | D |
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| Under the glad face of nature her face | E |
| Hath carried down with it all beauty and grace | E |
| Pale is it there in that dark silent place | E |
| Mary oh Mary | D |
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| Children are by me her children oh God | F |
| To see where their feet have unwittingly trod | F |
| Tiny tracks in the loam of the new broken sod | F |
| Betwixt them and their mother | G |
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| Betwixt them and the true one who loved us in truth | H |
| Who bore them and died mid the hopes of her youth | H |
| Who would live in a world where nor anguish nor ruth | H |
| May avail the bereaved ones | I |
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| Yet must I live lest her spirit should say | J |
| Meeting mine in its flight from this vesture of clay | J |
| Where are our little ones Where do they stay | J |
| And why did you leave them | K |
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| If for them only then so must it be | D |
| See I remain with them Mary but see | D |
| How lonely we stand in a world without thee | D |
| Mary oh Mary | D |
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| I live but death s shadow is over me cast | L |
| And even when wearied woe sleepeth at last | L |
| Some dream of the dead sighing out of the past | L |
| Is alive in the darkness | M |
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| Could I but weep it were comfort though brief | N |
| But the fountain of tears by the fire of my grief | N |
| Hath been dried to its dregs and can shed no relief | N |
| On the thirst of my eyelids | O |
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| As music that wasteth away on the blast | L |
| As the last ray by the sunken sun cast | L |
| All my heart s gladness hath died in the past | L |
| Mary oh Mary | D |
Charles Harpur
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