A Widow's Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEF GHGIJKLG MHMHNNOO| How near me came the hand of Death | A |
| When at my side he struck my dear | B |
| And took away the precious breath | A |
| Which quicken'd my belov egrave d peer | B |
| How helpless am I thereby made | C |
| By day how grieved by night how sad | D |
| And now my life's delight is gone | E |
| Alas how am I left alone | F |
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| The voice which I did more esteem | G |
| Than music in her sweetest key | H |
| Those eyes which unto me did seem | G |
| More comfortable than the day | I |
| Those now by me as they have been | J |
| Shall never more be heard or seen | K |
| But what I once enjoy'd in them | L |
| Shall seem hereafter as a dream | G |
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| Lord keep me faithful to the trust | M |
| Which my dear spouse reposed in me | H |
| To him now dead preserve me just | M |
| In all that should perform egrave d be | H |
| For though our being man and wife | N |
| Extendeth only to this life | N |
| Yet neither life nor death should end | O |
| The being of a faithful friend | O |
George Wither
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