The Memorial Pillar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EFGFCC HIHJKK ILILM NOPOQQ RSTSUU VWCWXY ZA2ZA2B2B2 C2D2C2D2E2E2 F2OF2OCC PF2PF2G2G2

Hast thou thro' Eden's wild wood vales pursuedA
Each mountain scene magnificently rudeA
Nor with attention's lifted eye reveredB
That modest stone by pious Pembroke rear'dB
Which still records beyond the pencil's powerC
The silent sorrows of a parting hour ROGERSD
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Mother and child whose blending tearsE
Have sanctified the placeF
Where to the love of many yearsG
Was given one last embraceF
Oh ye have shrin'd a spell of powerC
Deep in your record of that hourC
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A spell to waken solemn thoughtH
A still small under toneI
That calls back days of childhood fraughtH
With many a treasure goneJ
And smites perchance the hidden sourceK
Tho' long untroubled of remorseK
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For who that gazes on the stoneI
Which marks your parting spotL
Who but a mother's love hath knownI
The one love changing notL
Alas and haply learn'd its worthM
First with the sound of 'Earth to earth '-
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But thou high hearted daughter thouN
O'er whose bright honour'd headO
Blessings and tears of holiest flowP
Ev'n here were fondly shedO
Thou from the passion of thy griefQ
In its full burst couldst draw reliefQ
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For oh tho' painful be th' excessR
The might wherewith it swellsS
In nature's fount no bitternessT
Of nature's mingling dwellsS
And thou hadst not by wrong or prideU
Poison'd the free and healthful tideU
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But didst thou meet the face no moreV
Which thy young heart first knewW
And all was all in this world o'erC
With ties thus close and trueW
It was On earth no other eyeX
Could give thee back thine infancyY
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No other voice could pierce the mazeZ
Where deep within thy breastA2
The sounds and dreams of other daysZ
With memory lay at restA2
No other smile to thee could bringB2
A gladd'ning like the breath of springB2
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Yet while thy place of weeping stillC2
Its lone memorial keepsD2
While on thy name midst wood and hillC2
The quiet sunshine sleepsD2
And touches in each graven lineE2
Of reverential thought a signE2
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Can I while yet these tokens wearF2
The impress of the deadO
Think of the love embodied thereF2
As of a vision fledO
A perish'd thing the joy and flowerC
And glory of one earthly hourC
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Not so I will not bow me soP
To thoughts that breathe despairF2
A loftier faith we need belowP
Life's farewell words to bearF2
Mother and child Your tears are pastG2
Surely your hearts have met at lastG2

Felicia Dorothea Hemans



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