Burial Of Sarah Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE ACBC GDHD BIJI KILI MKIK NBCB ODJD FBFB| He stood before the sons of Heth | A |
| And bowed his sorrowing head | B |
| I've come he said to buy a place | C |
| Where I may lay my dead | B |
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| I am a stranger in your land | D |
| My home has lost its light | E |
| Grant me a place where I may lay | F |
| My dead away from sight | E |
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| Then tenderly the sons of Heth | A |
| Gazed on the mourner's face | C |
| And said Oh Prince amid our dead | B |
| Choose thou her resting place | C |
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| The sepulchres of those we love | G |
| We place at thy command | D |
| Against the plea thy grief hath made | H |
| We close not heart nor hand | D |
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| The patriarch rose and bowed his head | B |
| And said One place I crave | I |
| 'Tis at the end of Ephron's field | J |
| And called Machpelah's cave | I |
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| Entreat him that he sell to me | K |
| For her last sleep that cave | I |
| I do not ask for her I loved | L |
| The freedom of a grave | I |
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| The son of Zohar answered him | M |
| Hearken my lord to me | K |
| Before our sons the field and cave | I |
| I freely give to thee | K |
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| I will not take it as a gift | N |
| The grand old man then said | B |
| I pray thee let me buy the place | C |
| Where I may lay my dead | B |
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| And with the promise in his heart | O |
| His seed should own that land | D |
| He gave the shekels for the field | J |
| He took from Ephron's hand | D |
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| And saw afar the glorious day | F |
| His chosen seed should tread | B |
| The soil where he in sorrow lay | F |
| His loved and cherished dead | B |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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