An Elegy On The Death Of Montgomery Tappen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFEF GHGH IJKJ LMLD| An elegy on the death of MONTGOMERY TAPPEN who dies at Poughkeepsie on the th of Nov in the ninth year of his age | A |
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| The sweetest gentlest of the youthful train | B |
| Here lies his clay cold upon the sable bier | C |
| He scarce had started on life's varied plain | B |
| For dreary death arrested his career | D |
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| His cheek might vie with the expanded rose | E |
| And Genius sparkled in his azure eyes | F |
| A victim so unblemish'd Heaven chose | E |
| And bore the beauteous lambkin to the skies | F |
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| Adieu thou loveliest child Adieu adieu | G |
| Our wishes fain would follow thee on high | H |
| What more can friendship what more fondness do | G |
| But drop the unbidden tear heave the sigh | H |
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| Ye youths whose ardent bosoms virtue fires | I |
| Who eager wish applause and pant for fame | J |
| Press round MONTGOMERY'S hearse the NAME inspires | K |
| And lights in kindred souls its native flame | J |
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| COLUMBIA grateful hails the tender sound | L |
| And when MONTGOMERY'S nam'd still drops a tear | M |
| From shore to shore to earth's remotest bound | L |
| Where LIBERTY is known that NAME is dear | D |
Henry Livingston Jr.
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