Lines To A Married Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD CECEFGFG HIHIJKJK FLFLFMFM NOOOPQPQ ADADRIRI| There are flowers that never wither | A |
| There are skies that never fade | B |
| There are trees that cast forever | A |
| Cooling bowers of leafy shade | B |
| There are silver wavelets flowing | C |
| With a lulling sound of rest | D |
| Where the west wind softly blowing | C |
| Fans the far lands of the blest | D |
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| Thitherward our steps are tending | C |
| Oft through dim oppressive fears | E |
| More of grief than pleasure blending | C |
| In the darkening woof of years | E |
| Often would our footsteps weary | F |
| Sink upon the winding way | G |
| But that when all looks most dreary | F |
| O'er us beams a cheering ray | G |
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| Thus the Father who hath made us | H |
| Tenants of this world of care | I |
| Knoweth how to kindly aid us | H |
| With the burdens we must bear | I |
| Knoweth how to cause the spirit | J |
| Hopefully to raise its eyes | K |
| Toward the home it doth inherit | J |
| Far beyond the azure skies | K |
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| There's a voice that whispers lowly | F |
| Down within this heart of mine | L |
| Where emotions the most holy | F |
| Ever make their sacred shrine | L |
| And it tells a thrilling story | F |
| Of the Great Redeemer's love | M |
| And the all bewildering glory | F |
| Of the better land above | M |
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| O this life with all its sorrows | N |
| Hasteth onward to a close | O |
| In a few more brief to morrows | O |
| Will have ended all our woes | O |
| Then o'er death the part immortal | P |
| Shall sublimely rise and soar | Q |
| O'er the star resplendent portal | P |
| There to dwell for evermore | Q |
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| May we meet no more to sever | A |
| Where the weary are at rest | D |
| Far beyond dark Jordan's river | A |
| In the Canaan of the blest | D |
| Guard the treasures God hath given | R |
| To thy tenderest nurturing care | I |
| And upon the fields of heaven | R |
| Thou shalt see them blooming fair | I |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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