By The Fireside : Resignation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGGG GGGG HIHI HJHJ HDHD CBCB HGHG KLKL HGHG HMHM CNCNThere is no flock however watched and tended | A |
But one dead lamb is there | B |
There is no fireside howsoe'er defended | A |
But has one vacant chair | B |
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The air is full of farewells to the dying | C |
And mournings for the dead | D |
The heart of Rachel for her children crying | C |
Will not be comforted | E |
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Let us be patient These severe afflictions | F |
Not from the ground arise | G |
But oftentimes celestial benedictions | G |
Assume this dark disguise | G |
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We see but dimly through the mists and vapors | G |
Amid these earthly damps | G |
What seem to us but sad funereal tapers | G |
May be heaven's distant lamps | G |
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There is no Death What seems so is transition | H |
This life of mortal breath | I |
Is but a suburb of the life elysian | H |
Whose portal we call Death | I |
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She is not dead the child of our affection | H |
But gone unto that school | J |
Where she no longer needs our poor protection | H |
And Christ himself doth rule | J |
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In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion | H |
By guardian angels led | D |
Safe from temptation safe from sin's pollution | H |
She lives whom we call dead | D |
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Day after day we think what she is doing | C |
In those bright realms of air | B |
Year after year her tender steps pursuing | C |
Behold her grown more fair | B |
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Thus do we walk with her and keep unbroken | H |
The bond which nature gives | G |
Thinking that our remembrance though unspoken | H |
May reach her where she lives | G |
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Not as a child shall we again behold her | K |
For when with raptures wild | L |
In our embraces we again enfold her | K |
She will not be a child | L |
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But a fair maiden in her Father's mansion | H |
Clothed with celestial grace | G |
And beautiful with all the soul's expansion | H |
Shall we behold her face | G |
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And though at times impetuous with emotion | H |
And anguish long suppressed | M |
The swelling heart heaves moaning like the ocean | H |
That cannot be at rest | M |
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We will be patient and assuage the feeling | C |
We may not wholly stay | N |
By silence sanctifying not concealing | C |
The grief that must have way | N |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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