Written Christmas Day 1797 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMK NDOKPQRKSTUVW| I am a widow'd thing now thou art gone | A |
| Now thou art gone my own familiar friend | B |
| Companion sister help mate counsellor | C |
| Alas that honour'd mind whose sweet reproof | D |
| And meekest wisdom in times past have smooth'd | E |
| The unfilial harshness of my foolish speech | F |
| And made me loving to my parents old | G |
| Why is this so ah God why is this so | H |
| That honour'd mind become a fearful blank | I |
| Her senses lock'd up and herself kept out | J |
| From human sight or converse while so many | K |
| Of the foolish sort are left to roam at large | L |
| Doing all acts of folly and sin and shame | M |
| Thy paths are mystery | K |
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| Yet I will not think | N |
| Sweet friend but we shall one day meet and live | D |
| In quietness and die so fearing God | O |
| Or if not and these false suggestions be | K |
| A fit of the weak nature loth to part | P |
| With what it lov'd so long and held so dear | Q |
| If thou art to be taken and I left | R |
| More sinning yet unpunish'd save in thee | K |
| It is the will of God and we are clay | S |
| In the potter's hands and at the worst are made | T |
| From absolute nothing vessels of disgrace | U |
| Till his most righteous purpose wrought in us | V |
| Our purified spirits find their perfect rest | W |
Charles Lamb
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