Elegy On The Death Of A Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ AKAK LMLM KAKA NONO PFPF QHQH| Fair was thy blossom tender flower | A |
| That open'd like the rose in May | B |
| Though nursed beneath the chilly shower | A |
| Of fell regret for love's decay | B |
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| How oft thy mother heaved the sigh | C |
| O'er wreaths of honour early shorn | D |
| Before thy sweet and guiltless eye | C |
| Had open'd on the dawn of morn | D |
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| How oft above thy lowly bed | E |
| When all in silence slumber'd low | F |
| The fond and filial tear was shed | E |
| Thou child of love of shame and woe | F |
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| Her wrong'd but gentle bosom burn'd | G |
| With joy thy opening bloom to see | H |
| The only breast that o'er thee yearn'd | G |
| The only heart that cared for thee | H |
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| Oft her young eye with tear drops bright | I |
| Pleaded with Heaven for her sweet child | J |
| When faded dreams of past delight | I |
| O'er recollection wander'd wild | J |
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| Fair was thy blossom bonnie flower | A |
| Fair as the softest wreaths of spring | K |
| When late I saw thee seek the bower | A |
| In peace thy morning hymn to sing | K |
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| Thy little foot across the lawn | L |
| Scarce from the primrose press'd the dew | M |
| I thought the spirit of the dawn | L |
| Before me to the greenwood flew | M |
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| E'en then the shaft was on the wing | K |
| Thy spotless soul from earth to sever | A |
| A tear of pity wet the string | K |
| That twang'd and seal'd thy doom for ever | A |
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| I saw thee late the emblem fair | N |
| Of beauty innocence and truth | O |
| Start tiptoe on the verge of air | N |
| 'Twixt childhood and unstable youth | O |
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| But now I see thee stretch'd at rest | P |
| To break that rest shall wake no morrow | F |
| Pale as the grave flower on thy breast | P |
| Poor child of love of shame and sorrow | F |
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| May thy long sleep be sound and sweet | Q |
| Thy visions fraught with bliss to be | H |
| And long the daisy emblem meet | Q |
| Shall shed its earliest tear o'er thee | H |
James Hogg
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