Hester Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCCB DDDE FFFE GGGB HHHB IIIJ KKKJ| When maidens such as Hester die | A |
| Their place ye may not well supply | A |
| Though ye among a thousand try | A |
| With vain endeavour | B |
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| A month or more hath she been dead | C |
| Yet cannot I by force be led | C |
| To think upon the wormy bed | C |
| And her together | B |
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| A springy motion in her gait | D |
| A rising step did indicate | D |
| Of pride and joy no common rate | D |
| That flush'd her spirit | E |
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| I know not by what name beside | F |
| I shall it call if 'twas not pride | F |
| It was a joy to that allied | F |
| She did inherit | E |
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| Her parents held the Quaker rule | G |
| Which doth the human feeling cool | G |
| But she was train'd in Nature's school | G |
| Nature had blest her | B |
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| A waking eye a prying mind | H |
| A heart that stirs is hard to bind | H |
| A hawk's keen sight ye cannot blind | H |
| Ye could not Hester | B |
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| My sprightly neighbour gone before | I |
| To that unknown and silent shore | I |
| Shall we not meet as heretofore | I |
| Some summer morning | J |
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| When from thy cheerful eyes a ray | K |
| Hath struck a bliss upon the day | K |
| A bliss that would not go away | K |
| A sweet forewarning | J |
Charles Lamb
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