On A Packet Of Letters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK GMIM NEOE PQRQ SLTU VWXW| To day Oh not to day shall sound | A |
| Thy mild and gentle voice | B |
| Nor yet to morrow will it bid | C |
| My heart rejoice | B |
| - | |
| But one one fondly treasured thing | D |
| Is left me 'mid decay | E |
| This record hallowed with thy thoughts | F |
| Of yesterday | E |
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| Chaste thoughts and holy such as still | G |
| To purest hearts are given | H |
| Breathing of Earth yet wafting high | I |
| The soul to Heaven | H |
| - | |
| Soaring beyond the bounds of Time | J |
| Beyond the blight of Death | K |
| To worlds where parting is no more | L |
| Nor Life a breath | K |
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| 'Tis true they whisper mournfully | G |
| Of buds too bright to bloom | M |
| Of hopes that blossomed but to die | I |
| Around the tomb | M |
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| Still they are sweet remembrances | N |
| Of life's unclouded day | E |
| Sketches of mind which death alone | O |
| Can wrench away | E |
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| Memorials sad of by past hours | P |
| Gone with the silent dead | Q |
| Pictured affections pencilled dreams | R |
| Forever fled | Q |
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| Forever Are they hushed indeed | S |
| To wake again no more | L |
| Ties dearer far than Life itself | T |
| With life all o'er | U |
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| No Faith can point to holier climes | V |
| And bid the soul prepare | W |
| For deathless union that awaits | X |
| The faithful there | W |
Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney
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