In A Season Of Bereavement. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FGHHCC IIJJCC KLMMCC NNOPCC MMQQCC RRNNCC QQSSCC TTUVWW| Bright summer comes all bloom and flowers | A |
| To garland o'er her faded bowers | A |
| There's balm and sunshine on her wing | B |
| But where's the friend she used to bring | B |
| One heart is sad 'mid all the glee | C |
| And only asks Oh where is he | C |
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| He comes not now he comes not now | D |
| To chase the gloom from off my brow | D |
| He comes not with his wonted smile | E |
| The weary moments to beguile | E |
| There's joy in every look I see | C |
| But mine is sad for Where is he | C |
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| Closed is the book we used to read | F |
| There's none to smile there's none to heed | G |
| Our 'customed walk's deserted too | H |
| It charms not as it used to do | H |
| The fav'rite path the well known tree | C |
| All all are whispering Where is he | C |
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| This faithful heart is now a shrine | I |
| For each dear look and tone of thine | I |
| And every scene thou used to prize | J |
| Forever hallowed in my eyes | J |
| But oh how loved those friends shall be | C |
| Whose tearful eyes say Where is he | C |
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| I would not breathe to stranger's ear | K |
| A name so sacred and so clear | L |
| And when the reckless crowd are nigh | M |
| My bosom checks the rising sigh | M |
| But when no human eye can see | C |
| It bleeding cries Ah where is he | C |
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| Oh how I miss thy smile of light | N |
| Welcome at morn and kind good night | N |
| But when the quiet eve comes on | O |
| I feel that thou indeed art gone | P |
| That herald of delight to me | C |
| Is joyless now for Where is he | C |
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| I have not seen the crimson dye | M |
| Which sunset gives the western sky | M |
| Since on thy couch of death thou lay | Q |
| And watched its glories fade away | Q |
| Those hues so oft admired with thee | C |
| Would ask too loudly Where is he | C |
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| And oh that orb on whose mild rays | R |
| So fondly too we used to gaze | R |
| And though far distant there unite | N |
| At the same sacred hour of night | N |
| Seems sadly now to whisper me | C |
| Thou art all alone where where is he | C |
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| Life was to us no cloudless day | Q |
| Blossom and blight still marked our way | Q |
| But sorrow is not skilled to part | S |
| It links more closely heart to heart | S |
| Yes and they ever linked shall be | C |
| Summer oh tell me where is he | C |
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| I hear a voice upon the breeze | T |
| It speaks of holier ties than these | T |
| Of worlds where farewell sounds are o'er | U |
| And Death a victor never more | V |
| It bids me for that clime prepare | W |
| And sweetly whispers He is there | W |
Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney
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