The Image In Lava Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD CCEC FCCC GCHC ICJC KCCC CLCM NOPO QCCC RCSC TUVU| Thou thing of years departed | A |
| What ages have gone by | B |
| Since here the mournful seal was set | C |
| By love and agony | D |
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| Temple and tower have moulder'd | C |
| Empires from earth have pass'd | C |
| And woman's heart hath left a trace | E |
| Those glories to outlast | C |
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| And childhood's fragile image | F |
| Thus fearfully enshrin'd | C |
| Survives the proud memorials rear'd | C |
| By conquerors of mankind | C |
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| Babe wert thou brightly slumbering | G |
| Upon thy mother's breast | C |
| When suddenly the fiery tomb | H |
| Shut round each gentle guest | C |
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| A strange dark fate o'ertook you | I |
| Fair babe and loving heart | C |
| One moment of a thousand pangs | J |
| Yet better than to part | C |
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| Haply of that fond bosom | K |
| On ashes here impress'd | C |
| Thou wert the only treasure child | C |
| Whereon a hope might rest | C |
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| Perchance all vainly lavish'd | C |
| Its other love had been | L |
| And where it trusted nought remain'd | C |
| But thorns on which to lean | M |
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| Far better then to perish | N |
| Thy form within its clasp | O |
| Than live and lose thee precious one | P |
| From that impassion'd grasp | O |
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| Oh I could pass all relics | Q |
| Left by the pomps of old | C |
| To gaze on this rude monument | C |
| Cast in affection's mould | C |
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| Love human love what art thou | R |
| Thy print upon the dust | C |
| Outlives the cities of renown | S |
| Wherein the mighty trust | C |
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| Immortal oh immortal | T |
| Thou art whose earthly glow | U |
| Hath given these ashes holiness | V |
| It must it must be so | U |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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