Written On The Day Of My Aunt's Funeral Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS TUAVWXYXZA2B2C2D2 E2Thou too art dead very kind | A |
Hast thou been to me in my childish days | B |
Thou best good creature I have not forgot | C |
How thou didst love thy Charles when he was yet | D |
A prating school boy I have not forgot | C |
The busy joy on that important day | E |
When child like the poor wanderer was content | F |
To leave the bosom of parental love | G |
His childhood's play place and his early home | H |
For the rude fosterings of a stranger's hand | I |
Hard uncouth tasks and school boy's scanty fare | J |
How did thine eye peruse him round and round | K |
And hardly know him in his yellow coats | L |
Red leathern belt and gown of russet blue | M |
Farewell good aunt | N |
Go thou and occupy the same grave bed | O |
Where the dead mother lies | P |
Oh my dear mother oh thou dear dead saint | Q |
Where's now that placid face where oft hath sat | R |
A mother's smile to think her son should thrive | S |
In this bad world when she was dead and gone | T |
And where a tear hath sat take shame O son | U |
When that same child has prov'd himself unkind | A |
One parent yet is left a wretched thing | V |
A sad survivor of his buried wife | W |
A palsy smitten childish old old man | X |
A semblance most forlorn of what he was | Y |
A merry cheerful man A merrier man | X |
A man more apt to frame matter for mirth | Z |
Mad jokes and anticks for a Christmas eve | A2 |
Making life social and the laggard time | B2 |
To move on nimbly never yet did cheer | C2 |
The little circle of domestic friends | D2 |
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February | E2 |
Charles Lamb
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