Written Soon After The Preceding Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJCKLCMNJCOP QRSTUVWCC X| Thou should'st have longer liv'd and to the grave | A |
| Have peacefully gone down in full old age | B |
| Thy children would have tended thy gray hairs | C |
| We might have sat as we have often done | D |
| By our fireside and talk'd whole nights away | E |
| Old times old friends and old events recalling | F |
| With many a circumstance of trivial note | G |
| To memory dear and of importance grown | H |
| How shall we tell them in a stranger's ear | I |
| A wayward son ofttimes was I to thee | J |
| And yet in all our little bickerings | C |
| Domestic jars there was I know not what | K |
| Of tender feeling that were ill exchang'd | L |
| For this world's chilling friendships and their smiles | C |
| Familiar whom the heart calls strangers still | M |
| A heavy lot hath he most wretched man | N |
| Who lives the last of all his family | J |
| He looks around him and his eye discerns | C |
| The face of the stranger and his heart is sick | O |
| Man of the world what canst thou do for him | P |
| Wealth is a burden which he could not bear | Q |
| Mirth a strange crime the which he dares not act | R |
| And wine no cordial but a bitter cup | S |
| For wounds like his Christ is the only cure | T |
| And gospel promises are his by right | U |
| For these were given to the poor in heart | V |
| Go preach thou to him of a world to come | W |
| Where friends shall meet and know each other's face | C |
| Say less than this and say it to the winds | C |
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| October | X |
Charles Lamb
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