By The Fireside : Resignation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGGG GGGG HIHI HJHJ HDHD CBCB HGHG KLKL HGHG HMHM CNCN

There is no flock however watched and tendedA
But one dead lamb is thereB
There is no fireside howsoe'er defendedA
But has one vacant chairB
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The air is full of farewells to the dyingC
And mournings for the deadD
The heart of Rachel for her children cryingC
Will not be comfortedE
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Let us be patient These severe afflictionsF
Not from the ground ariseG
But oftentimes celestial benedictionsG
Assume this dark disguiseG
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We see but dimly through the mists and vaporsG
Amid these earthly dampsG
What seem to us but sad funereal tapersG
May be heaven's distant lampsG
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There is no Death What seems so is transitionH
This life of mortal breathI
Is but a suburb of the life elysianH
Whose portal we call DeathI
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She is not dead the child of our affectionH
But gone unto that schoolJ
Where she no longer needs our poor protectionH
And Christ himself doth ruleJ
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In that great cloister's stillness and seclusionH
By guardian angels ledD
Safe from temptation safe from sin's pollutionH
She lives whom we call deadD
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Day after day we think what she is doingC
In those bright realms of airB
Year after year her tender steps pursuingC
Behold her grown more fairB
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Thus do we walk with her and keep unbrokenH
The bond which nature givesG
Thinking that our remembrance though unspokenH
May reach her where she livesG
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Not as a child shall we again behold herK
For when with raptures wildL
In our embraces we again enfold herK
She will not be a childL
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But a fair maiden in her Father's mansionH
Clothed with celestial graceG
And beautiful with all the soul's expansionH
Shall we behold her faceG
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And though at times impetuous with emotionH
And anguish long suppressedM
The swelling heart heaves moaning like the oceanH
That cannot be at restM
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We will be patient and assuage the feelingC
We may not wholly stayN
By silence sanctifying not concealingC
The grief that must have wayN

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



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