Written A Year After The Events Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIDDJKLBDDMDN ONOO JOOPDQDROSTUNNVWXYO DDGDOZA2B2C2D2GDOE2D NAlas 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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