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 lipsA
And bow your heads to earth for Death is hereB
Mark ye not how across that eye so clearC
Steals his eclipseA
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A moment moreD
And the quick throbbings of her heart shall ceaseE
Her pain wrung spirit will obtain releaseE
And all be o'erF
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Hush Seal ye upG
Your gushing tears for Mercy's hand hath shakenH
Her earth bonds off and from her lip hath takenH
Grief's bitter cupG
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Ye know the deadI
Are they who rest secure from care and strifeJ
That they who walk the thorny way of lifeJ
Have tears to shedI
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Ye know her pray'rK
Was for the quiet of the tomb's deep restL
Love's sepulchre lay cold within her breastL
Could peace dwell thereM
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A tale soon toldN
Is of her life the story she had lovedO
And he who won her heart to love had provedP
Heartless and coldN
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Lay her to restL
Where shines and falls the summer's sun and dewQ
For these should shine and fall where lies so trueQ
And fond a breastL
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A full releaseE
From every pang is given to the deadI
So on the stone ye place above her headI
Write only PeaceE
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When Spring comes backR
With music on her lips joy in her eyeS
Her sunny banner streaming through the skyS
Flow'rs in her trackR
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Then come ye hereB
And musing from the busy world apartT
Drop on the turf that wraps her mouldering heartT
Sweet Pity's tearM
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The most touchingly beautiful epitaph I have ever read wasU
written in that one word Peace It seemed like the last sighS
of a departing spirit over the clay which it was about toQ
abandon for everF

George W. Sands



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