The Graves Of A Household Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH FIFI JFJF FBFB KLKM| They grew in beauty side by side | A |
| They fill'd one home with glee | B |
| Their graves are sever'd far and wide | A |
| By mount and stream and sea | B |
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| The same fond mother bent at night | C |
| O'er each fair sleeping brow | D |
| She had each folded flower in sight | C |
| Where are those dreamers now | D |
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| One midst the forests of the west | E |
| By a dark stream is laid | F |
| The Indian knows his place of rest | E |
| Far in the cedar shade | F |
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| The sea the blue lone sea hath one | G |
| He lies where pearls lie deep | H |
| He was the lov'd of all yet none | G |
| O'er his low bed may weep | H |
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| One sleeps where southern vines are drest | F |
| Above the noble slain | I |
| He wrapt his colours round his breast | F |
| On a blood red field of Spain | I |
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| And one o'er her the myrtle showers | J |
| Its leaves by soft winds fann'd | F |
| She faded midst Italian flowers | J |
| The last of that bright band | F |
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| And parted thus they rest who play'd | F |
| Beneath the same green tree | B |
| Whose voices mingled as they pray'd | F |
| Around one parent knee | B |
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| They that with smiles lit up the hall | K |
| And cheer'd with song the hearth | L |
| Alas for love if thou wert all | K |
| And nought beyond oh earth | M |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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