After Witnessing A Death-scene Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEEF GHHG IJJI KLLM NOPN LQQL EIIE RSSR BTTM USQFPress 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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