Cora Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF FGFG HIJI KLKL MFNF FFFF OFBF PFPF FFFF QRQR FSFS HPHP| Of Cora once so dearly ours | A |
| Would mournful memory sing | B |
| Of how she came when came the flowers | A |
| To leave us with the spring | B |
| That day returned which gave her breath | C |
| Was that whereon she died | D |
| And o er the pangs of birth and death | C |
| Passed blooming as a bride | D |
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| The spring it came with never a storm | E |
| And nine times came and went | F |
| Till its whole spirit with her form | E |
| In budding beauty blent | F |
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| Yea till its sentiment was wreathed | F |
| About her eye it came | G |
| And all its foregone influence breathed | F |
| At mention of her name | G |
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| And aye her soul her inward worth | H |
| Flushed out in subtle glows | I |
| As from its heart come mantling forth | J |
| The ardours of a rose | I |
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| It was a glory from within | K |
| That made her face so fair | L |
| A radiant spirit void of sin | K |
| Was working outward there | L |
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| Her locks as they were burnished shone | M |
| In many a massy fold | F |
| Or fell in their profusion down | N |
| Like bursting sheaves of gold | F |
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| Bright garments of a spirit bright | F |
| That even in the shroud | F |
| Were like the sunset s aureate light | F |
| Within a lifeless cloud | F |
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| When she our angel of the sun | O |
| Had spread her wings in flight | F |
| Ah still would mournful memory sing | B |
| Of her our lost delight | F |
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| Child with full orbs of heaven deep blue | P |
| Illumined violet | F |
| So richly gentle touched with dew | P |
| Befringed with glossy jet | F |
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| When with the spring we saw depart | F |
| Those eyes those tresses curled | F |
| Then summer dying in love s heart | F |
| To winger left the world | F |
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| Ah soul that wore the snowy brow | Q |
| And gentle shining eyes | R |
| Our song hath aye this burden now | Q |
| Beneath the vernal skies | R |
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| In vain the dews of heaven are shed | F |
| Where blight hath been before | S |
| So vainly weep we o er the dead | F |
| But only weep the more | S |
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| Yet from the bright time of her birth | H |
| And death does faith construe | P |
| How like the spring though not on earth | H |
| Our joy shall bloom anew | P |
Charles Harpur
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