Memoria In ëterna Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEFGGGG HHDDIIJJKKDD LLMMMMNNNOOO PPQQRSTTUUOO

Sweet Memory thou faculty divineA
Triumphant o'er the cruel hand of TimeB
On thy tablets we may traceC
The lines his fingers ne'er effaceC
And take with us till latest dayD
The images that light our wayD
And picture thus in a shadowy formE
The loved and lost he's from us tornF
Their lids by Death so early sealedG
Life's crimson tide by him congealedG
The tyrant has not all concealedG
They in thy mirror still revealedG
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Before the morning sunbeams kissedH
The face of Nature veiled in mistH
And heralded with golden rayD
The opening of the perfect dayD
Ere yet the sable shades of nightI
At dawn's approach had winged their flightI
We've listed to the whispering breezeJ
That's wafted o'er the trembling treesJ
And seemed to hear the voices sweetK
Of loved ones now we ne'er can meetK
Till earthly night shall pass awayD
Supplanted by immortal dayD
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And thus in retrospective moodL
Alone with Nature's solitudeL
In some secluded sylvan dellM
Her myriad voices float and swellM
And flitting shadows softly tellM
Of dear ones lost yet loved so wellM
Then to the sunny home where dweltN
Ere yet the envious tyrant dealtN
The blow that blighted hopes have feltN
Fond fancy wanders and can seeO
Once happy scenes that ne'er can beO
Lost in thy shades O MemoryO
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But those to us so cruelly deniedP
Are drifting now upon some fairer tideP
Their scattered ashes on Hope's pinions riseQ
And people realms beyond the azure skiesQ
Then may our faltering footsteps leadR
To where fond hearts may never bleedS
Where vanished faces cherished formsT
Are anchored safe from life's rude stormsT
Where strains seraphic soft and lowU
The rapt ear greet and we shall knowU
The loved and lost we only seeO
In visions of sweet MemoryO

George W. Doneghy



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