The Bereaved One Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH IJKJLDLD| She sleeps and I see through a shadowy haze | A |
| Where the hopes of the past and the dreams that I cherished | B |
| In the sunlight of brighter and happier days | A |
| As the mists of the morning have faded and perished | B |
| She sleeps and will waken to bless me no more | C |
| Her life has died out like the gleam on the river | D |
| And the bliss that illumined my bosom of yore | C |
| Has fled from its dwelling for ever and ever | D |
| I had thought in this life not to travel alone | E |
| I had hoped for a mate in my joys and my sorrow | F |
| But the face of my idol is colder than stone | E |
| And my path will be lonely without her to morrow | F |
| I was hoping to bask in the light of her smile | G |
| When Fortune and Fame with their laurels had crown d me | H |
| But the fire in her eyes has been dying the while | G |
| And the thorns of affliction are planted around me | H |
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| There are those that may vent all their grief in their tears | I |
| And weep till the past is away in the distance | J |
| But this wreck of the dream of my sunshiny years | K |
| Will hang like a cloud o er the rest of existence | J |
| In the depth of my soul she shall ever remain | L |
| My thoughts like the angels shall hover about her | D |
| For our hearts have been reft and divided in pain | L |
| And what is this world to be left in without her | D |
Henry Kendall
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