Written A Year After The Events Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIDDJKLBDDMDN ONOO JOOPDQDROSTUNNVWXYO DDGDOZA2B2C2D2GDOE2D N| Alas how am I chang'd Where be the tears | A |
| The sobs and forc'd suspensions of the breath | B |
| And all the dull desertions of the heart | C |
| With which I hung o'er my dead mother's corse | D |
| Where be the blest subsidings of the storm | E |
| Within the sweet resignedness of hope | F |
| Drawn heavenward and strength of filial love | G |
| In which I bow'd me to my father's will | H |
| My God and my Redeemer keep not thou | I |
| My soul in brute and sensual thanklessness | D |
| Seal'd up oblivious ever of that dear grace | D |
| And health restor'd to my long loved friend | J |
| Long lov'd and worthy known Thou didst not leave | K |
| Her soul in death O leave not now my Lord | L |
| Thy servants in far worse in spiritual death | B |
| And darkness blacker than those feared shadows | D |
| Of the valley all must tread Lend us thy balms | D |
| Thou dear Physician of the sin sick soul | M |
| And heal our cleansed bosoms of the wounds | D |
| With which the world has pierc'd us thro' and thro' | N |
| Give us new flesh new birth Elect of heav'n | O |
| May we become in thine election sure | N |
| Contain'd and to one purpose stedfast drawn | O |
| Our soul's salvation | O |
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| Thou and I dear friend | J |
| With filial recognition sweet shall know | O |
| One day the face of our dear mother in heaven | O |
| And her remember'd looks of love shall greet | P |
| With looks of answering love her placid smiles | D |
| Meet with a smile as placid and her hand | Q |
| With drops of fondness wet nor fear repulse | D |
| Be witness for me Lord I do not ask | R |
| Those days of vanity to return again | O |
| Nor fitting me to ask nor thee to give | S |
| Vain loves and wanderings with a fair hair'd maid | T |
| Child of the dust as I am who so long | U |
| My captive heart steep'd in idolatry | N |
| And creature loves Forgive me O my Maker | N |
| If in a mood of grief I sin almost | V |
| In sometimes brooding on the days long past | W |
| And from the grave of time wishing them back | X |
| Days of a mother's fondness to her child | Y |
| Her little one | O |
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| O where be now those sports | D |
| And infant play games where the joyous troops | D |
| Of children and the haunts I did so love | G |
| O my companions O ye loved names | D |
| Of friend or playmate dear gone are ye now | O |
| Gone diverse ways to honour and credit some | Z |
| And some I fear to ignominy and shame | A2 |
| I only am left with unavailing grief | B2 |
| To mourn one parent dead and see one live | C2 |
| Of all life's joys bereft and desolate | D2 |
| Am left with a few friends and one above | G |
| The rest found faithful in a length of years | D |
| Contented as I may to bear me on | O |
| To the not unpeaceful evening of a day | E2 |
| Made black by morning storms | D |
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| September | N |
Charles Lamb
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