After Witnessing A Death-scene Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEEF GHHG IJJI KLLM NOPN LQQL EIIE RSSR BTTM USQF| Press close your lips | A |
| And bow your heads to earth for Death is here | B |
| Mark ye not how across that eye so clear | C |
| Steals his eclipse | A |
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| A moment more | D |
| And the quick throbbings of her heart shall cease | E |
| Her pain wrung spirit will obtain release | E |
| And all be o'er | F |
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| Hush Seal ye up | G |
| Your gushing tears for Mercy's hand hath shaken | H |
| Her earth bonds off and from her lip hath taken | H |
| Grief's bitter cup | G |
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| Ye know the dead | I |
| Are they who rest secure from care and strife | J |
| That they who walk the thorny way of life | J |
| Have tears to shed | I |
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| Ye know her pray'r | K |
| Was for the quiet of the tomb's deep rest | L |
| Love's sepulchre lay cold within her breast | L |
| Could peace dwell there | M |
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| A tale soon told | N |
| Is of her life the story she had loved | O |
| And he who won her heart to love had proved | P |
| Heartless and cold | N |
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| Lay her to rest | L |
| Where shines and falls the summer's sun and dew | Q |
| For these should shine and fall where lies so true | Q |
| And fond a breast | L |
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| A full release | E |
| From every pang is given to the dead | I |
| So on the stone ye place above her head | I |
| Write only Peace | E |
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| When Spring comes back | R |
| With music on her lips joy in her eye | S |
| Her sunny banner streaming through the sky | S |
| Flow'rs in her track | R |
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| Then come ye here | B |
| And musing from the busy world apart | T |
| Drop on the turf that wraps her mouldering heart | T |
| Sweet Pity's tear | M |
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| The most touchingly beautiful epitaph I have ever read was | U |
| written in that one word Peace It seemed like the last sigh | S |
| of a departing spirit over the clay which it was about to | Q |
| abandon for ever | F |
George W. Sands
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