The Memorial Pillar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EFGFCC HIHJKK ILILM NOPOQQ RSTSUU VWCWXY ZA2ZA2B2B2 C2D2C2D2E2E2 F2OF2OCC PF2PF2G2G2Hast thou thro' Eden's wild wood vales pursued | A |
Each mountain scene magnificently rude | A |
Nor with attention's lifted eye revered | B |
That modest stone by pious Pembroke rear'd | B |
Which still records beyond the pencil's power | C |
The silent sorrows of a parting hour ROGERS | D |
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Mother and child whose blending tears | E |
Have sanctified the place | F |
Where to the love of many years | G |
Was given one last embrace | F |
Oh ye have shrin'd a spell of power | C |
Deep in your record of that hour | C |
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A spell to waken solemn thought | H |
A still small under tone | I |
That calls back days of childhood fraught | H |
With many a treasure gone | J |
And smites perchance the hidden source | K |
Tho' long untroubled of remorse | K |
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For who that gazes on the stone | I |
Which marks your parting spot | L |
Who but a mother's love hath known | I |
The one love changing not | L |
Alas and haply learn'd its worth | M |
First with the sound of 'Earth to earth ' | - |
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But thou high hearted daughter thou | N |
O'er whose bright honour'd head | O |
Blessings and tears of holiest flow | P |
Ev'n here were fondly shed | O |
Thou from the passion of thy grief | Q |
In its full burst couldst draw relief | Q |
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For oh tho' painful be th' excess | R |
The might wherewith it swells | S |
In nature's fount no bitterness | T |
Of nature's mingling dwells | S |
And thou hadst not by wrong or pride | U |
Poison'd the free and healthful tide | U |
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But didst thou meet the face no more | V |
Which thy young heart first knew | W |
And all was all in this world o'er | C |
With ties thus close and true | W |
It was On earth no other eye | X |
Could give thee back thine infancy | Y |
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No other voice could pierce the maze | Z |
Where deep within thy breast | A2 |
The sounds and dreams of other days | Z |
With memory lay at rest | A2 |
No other smile to thee could bring | B2 |
A gladd'ning like the breath of spring | B2 |
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Yet while thy place of weeping still | C2 |
Its lone memorial keeps | D2 |
While on thy name midst wood and hill | C2 |
The quiet sunshine sleeps | D2 |
And touches in each graven line | E2 |
Of reverential thought a sign | E2 |
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Can I while yet these tokens wear | F2 |
The impress of the dead | O |
Think of the love embodied there | F2 |
As of a vision fled | O |
A perish'd thing the joy and flower | C |
And glory of one earthly hour | C |
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Not so I will not bow me so | P |
To thoughts that breathe despair | F2 |
A loftier faith we need below | P |
Life's farewell words to bear | F2 |
Mother and child Your tears are past | G2 |
Surely your hearts have met at last | G2 |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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