Sorrow And Joy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAAB CDCCCE FGFFFG HIJHHI KLKKKL IMIIIM NOBNNP| In sad procession borne away | A |
| To sound of funeral knell | B |
| Affection's tribute thus we pay | A |
| And in earth's shelt'ring bosom lay | A |
| The friend to whom but yesterday | A |
| We gave the sad farewell | B |
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| But scarce the melancholy sound | C |
| Has died upon the ear | D |
| Before the mournful dirge is drowned | C |
| By wedding anthems' glad rebound | C |
| That stir the solemn air around | C |
| With merry peals and clear | E |
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| Within our home doth gladness tread | F |
| So closely upon grief | G |
| That in the tears of sorrow shed | F |
| O'er our beloved lamented dead | F |
| We see reflected joy instead | F |
| That gives a blest relief | G |
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| A father and a daughter gone | H |
| Beyond our fireside | I |
| For one we loved and leaned upon | J |
| The skillful archer Death had drawn | H |
| His bow and one in life's sweet dawn | H |
| Went out a happy bride | I |
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| We gave to Heaven in manhood's prime | K |
| Him whose brave strength and worth | L |
| Life's rugged steeps had taught to climb | K |
| And her for whom a tuneful rhyme | K |
| The bells of promise sweetly chime | K |
| We consecrate to earth | L |
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| Thus each a mystic path untried | I |
| Has entered God is just | M |
| We leave with him our friend who died | I |
| With him we leave our fair young bride | I |
| Who shall no more with us abide | I |
| And in His goodness trust | M |
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| Oh life and death uncertainty | N |
| Bright hopes and anxious fears | O |
| Commingle so bewilderingly | B |
| That perfect joy we may not see | N |
| Till all shall reunited be | N |
| Beyond this vale of tears | P |
Hattie Howard
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