Florence Nightingale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFGGH IIJKKJ LLMNNM OPQFHQ RRMSSM| UPON the whitewashed walls | A |
| A woman's shadow falls | A |
| A woman walketh o'er the darksome floors | B |
| A soft angelic smile | C |
| Lighteth her face the while | C |
| In passing through the dismal corridors | D |
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| And now and then there slips | E |
| A word from out her lips | E |
| More sweet and grateful to those listening ears | F |
| Than the most plaintive tale | G |
| Of the sad nightingale | G |
| Whose name and tenderness this woman bears | H |
| - | |
| Her presence in the room | I |
| Of agony and gloom | I |
| No fretful murmurs no coarse words profane | J |
| For while she standeth there | K |
| All words are hushed save prayer | K |
| She seems God's angel weeping o'er man's pain | J |
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| And some of them arise | L |
| With eager tearful eyes | L |
| From off their couch to see her passing by | M |
| Some e'en too weak for this | N |
| Can only stoop and kiss | N |
| Her shadow and fall back content to die | M |
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| No monument of stone | O |
| Needs this heroic one | P |
| Her name is graven on each noble heart | Q |
| And in all after years | F |
| Her praise will be the tears | H |
| Which at that name from quivering lids will start | Q |
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| And those who live not now | R |
| To see the sainted brow | R |
| And the angelic smile before it flits for aye | M |
| They in the future age | S |
| Will kiss the storied page | S |
| Whereon the shadow of her life will lie | M |
Emma Lazarus
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