Korner And His Sister Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAA AAAAAA ABABCC ADADEE FAFABB AGAGAA HAHAFI AAAAAA AJAKLL| Green wave the oak for ever o'er thy rest | A |
| Thou that beneath its crowning foliage sleepest | A |
| And in the stillness of thy country's breast | A |
| Thy place of memory as an altar keepest | A |
| Brightly thy spirit o'er her hills was pour'd | A |
| Thou of the Lyre and Sword | A |
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| Rest bard rest soldier by the father's hand | A |
| Here shall the child of after years be led | A |
| With his wreath offering silently to stand | A |
| In the hush'd presence of the glorious dead | A |
| Soldier and bard for thou thy path hast trod | A |
| With freedom and with God | A |
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| The oak wav'd proudly o'er thy burial rite | A |
| On thy crown'd bier to slumber warriors bore thee | B |
| And with true hearts thy brethren of the fight | A |
| Wept as they vail'd their drooping banners o'er thee | B |
| And the deep guns with rolling peal gave token | C |
| That Lyre and Sword were broken | C |
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| Thou hast a hero's tomb a lowlier bed | A |
| Is hers the gentle girl beside thee lying | D |
| The gentle girl that bow'd her fair young head | A |
| When thou wert gone in silent sorrow dying | D |
| Brother true friend the tender and the brave | E |
| She pined to share thy grave | E |
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| Fame was thy gift from others but for her | F |
| To whom the wide world held that only spot | A |
| She loved thee lovely in your lives ye were | F |
| And in your early deaths divided not | A |
| Thou hast thine oak thy trophy What hath she | B |
| Her own blest place by thee | B |
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| It was thy spirit brother which had made | A |
| The bright earth glorious to her thoughtful eye | G |
| Since first in childhood midst the vines ye play'd | A |
| And sent glad singing thro' the free blue sky | G |
| Ye were but two and when that spirit pass'd | A |
| Wo to the one the last | A |
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| Wo yet not long She linger'd but to trace | H |
| Thine image from the image in her breast | A |
| Once once again to see that buried face | H |
| But smile upon her ere she went to rest | A |
| Too sad a smile its living light was o'er | F |
| It answer'd hers no more | I |
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| The earth grew silent when thy voice departed | A |
| The home too lonely whence thy step had fled | A |
| What then was left for her the faithful hearted | A |
| Death death to still the yearning for the dead | A |
| Softly she perish'd be the Flower deplor'd | A |
| Here with the Lyre and Sword | A |
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| Have ye not met ere now so let those trust | A |
| That meet for moments but to part for years | J |
| That weep watch pray to hold back dust from dust | A |
| That love where love is but a fount of tears | K |
| Brother sweet sister peace around ye dwell | L |
| Lyre Sword and Flower farewell | L |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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