The Farewell To The Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DEFD CC GHHGCC IJJICC KLMKCC NDDNCC ODDOCC HPPHCC| Come near ere yet the dust | A |
| Soil the bright paleness of the settled brow | B |
| Look on your brother and embrace him now | B |
| In still and solemn trust | A |
| Come near once more let kindred lips be press'd | C |
| On his cold cheek then bear him to his rest | C |
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| Look yet on this young face | D |
| What shall the beauty from amongst us gone | E |
| Leave of its image ev'n where most it shone | F |
| Gladdening its hearth and race | D |
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| Dim grows the semblance on man's heart impress'd | C |
| Come near and bear the beautiful to rest | C |
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| Ye weep and it is well | G |
| For tears befit earth's partings Yesterday | H |
| Song was upon the lips of this pale clay | H |
| And sunshine seem'd to dwell | G |
| Where'er he mov'd the welcome and the bless'd | C |
| Now gaze and bear the silent unto rest | C |
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| Look yet on him whose eye | I |
| Meets yours no more in sadness or in mirth | J |
| Was he not fair amidst the sons of earth | J |
| The beings born to die | I |
| But not where death has power may love be bless'd | C |
| Come near and bear ye the belov'd to rest | C |
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| How may the mother's heart | K |
| Dwell on her son and dare to hope again | L |
| The spring's rich promise hath been given in vain | M |
| The lovely must depart | K |
| Is he not gone our brightest and our best | C |
| Come near and bear the early call'd to rest | C |
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| Look on him is he laid | N |
| To slumber from the harvest or the chase | D |
| Too still and sad the smile upon his face | D |
| Yet that ev'n that must fade | N |
| Death holds not long unchang'd his fairest guest | C |
| Come near and bear the mortal to his rest | C |
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| His voice of mirth hath ceas'd | O |
| Amidst the vineyards there is left no place | D |
| For him whose dust receives your vain embrace | D |
| At the gay bridal feast | O |
| Earth must take earth to moulder on her breast | C |
| Come near weep o'er him bear him to his rest | C |
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| Yet mourn ye not as they | H |
| Whose spirit's light is quench'd for him the past | P |
| Is seal'd He may not fall he may not cast | P |
| His birthright's hope away | H |
| All is not here of our belov'd and bless'd | C |
| Leave ye the sleeper with his God to rest | C |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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