The Blessed Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD DEDE FDFD| They loved life even as we who went away | A |
| From their dear dwelling place to one unknown | B |
| To us who linger here They could not stay | A |
| Nor we go with them so they went alone | B |
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| Although their beating hearts with ours kept time | C |
| Although their clinging hands we fondly held | D |
| We could not walk the path they had to climb | C |
| Hardly we heard the death call when it knelled | D |
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| Trustful or fearful of the way ahead | D |
| They had to journey from this throbbing life | E |
| And we we know they are the blessed dead | D |
| For they have gone away from pain and strife | E |
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| We cannot see the land where they have gone | F |
| Our eyes are dim and they are hid in light | D |
| But we are following them toward the dawn | F |
| Who knows when it will break upon our sight | D |
Helen Leah Reed
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