In Memoriam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAA BBBBC DDDDD DEEEE EEFGF HGG| TWO watchers sit beside the dead | A |
| From hour to hour no prayer is said | A |
| For they are dumb and he is dead | A |
| And snows are curling round his head | A |
| While God's white wings are overspread | A |
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| None heard the sad heart's stifled cry | B |
| None save the two dogs sitting by | B |
| And Him that watcheth in the sky | B |
| It passed that agonizing cry | B |
| In gloom as deep as Calvary | C |
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| None saw the last look on that face | D |
| Where men once read such love and grace | D |
| No hand was nigh to smooth the trace | D |
| Of anguish on that pallid face | D |
| The patient hero wins the race | D |
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| Alone in God's great dwelling place | D |
| Earth folded him with gentle hands | E |
| In Nature's whitest swathing bands | E |
| A snow veil on his face and hands | E |
| And silence on those northern lands | E |
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| Thro' cloud rift in the west expands | E |
| A light from where God's temple stands | E |
| The new born soul in Paradise | F |
| Forgets the snow and wintry skies | G |
| Forgets in sunny Paradise | F |
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| The dying body's agonies | H |
| Lord keep him till that form shall rise | G |
| To meet Thee coming in the skies | G |
Frederick George Scott
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