For The Consecration Of A Cemetery. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGHG IJKJ LMNM OPEP| This verdant field that smiles to Heaven | A |
| In Nature's bright array | B |
| From common uses set apart | C |
| We consecrate to day | B |
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| God's Acre be it fitly called | D |
| For when beneath the sod | E |
| We lay the dead with reverent hands | F |
| We yield them back to God | E |
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| And His great love so freely given | A |
| Shall speak in clearer tones | G |
| When pacing through these hallowed walks | H |
| We read memorial stones | G |
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| Here let the sunshine softly fall | I |
| And gently drop the rain | J |
| And Nature's countless harmonies | K |
| Blend one accordant strain | J |
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| That they who seek this sacred place | L |
| In mourning solitude | M |
| In all this gracious company | N |
| May have their faith renewed | M |
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| So lifted to serener heights | O |
| And purified from dross | P |
| Their trustful hearts shall rest on God | E |
| And profit by their loss | P |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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