"restland." Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFEF AGFG H I I H JKJK LFLF MHMH| Written In The Danville KY Cemetery | A |
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| Within thy hallowed precincts on this sweet autumnal day | B |
| We're wandering 'neath the cedar and the pine | C |
| Where rests the sacred dust of loved ones passed away | B |
| And bleeding hearts a melancholy pleasure find | D |
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| In memory's faithful mirror here once more we trace | E |
| Familiar forms of those in life we knew | F |
| And see again the shadowy outlines of some face | E |
| That living beamed with kindness ever true | F |
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| Old age and manhood's prime and helpless infancy | A |
| Have dotted o'er with many an emerald mound | G |
| And marked each stone with mournful tracery | F |
| Which stands within this consecrated ground | G |
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| And there the marble shaft its stately head | I |
| In polished whiteness pointing to the sky | - |
| And here the modest tribute to the lowly dead | I |
| The silent monitors that tell us all must die | - |
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| Here lavish Nature her bright smile imparts | J |
| And decks with lovely flowers in early Spring | K |
| And here the sympathetic tear unbidden starts | J |
| And loving hands their sweetest tributes bring | K |
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| Loved spot A solace to the living 'tis to know | L |
| That when at last life's fitful fever o'er | F |
| The cortege sad with solemn step and slow | L |
| Shall bear us here to rest forever more | F |
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| 'Till that bright day when ransomed spirits rise | M |
| And loved and lost shall reunited be | H |
| To dwell in realms beyond the star lit skies | M |
| Throughout one circling vast eternity | H |
George W. Doneghy
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