John Walsh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDE FGGFHHII JKKJLLMM NNOPPQ| A strange life strangely passed | A |
| We may not read the soul | B |
| When God has folded up the scroll | B |
| In death at last | A |
| We may not dare not say of one | C |
| Whose task of life as well was done | C |
| As he could do it 'This is lost | D |
| And prayers may never pay the cost ' | E |
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| Who listens to the song | F |
| That sings within the breast | G |
| Should ever hear the good expressed | G |
| Above the wrong | F |
| And he who leans an eager ear | H |
| To catch the discord he will hear | H |
| The echoes of his own weak heart | I |
| Beat out the most discordant part | I |
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| Whose tender heart could build | J |
| Affection's bower above | K |
| A heart where baby nests of love | K |
| Were ever filled | J |
| With upward growth may reach and twine | L |
| About the children grown divine | L |
| That once were his a time so brief | M |
| His very joy was more than grief | M |
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| O Sorrow 'Peace be still ' | - |
| God reads the riddle right | N |
| And we who grope in constant night | N |
| But serve His will | O |
| And when sometime the doubt is gone | P |
| And darkness blossoms into dawn | P |
| 'God keeps the good ' we then will say | Q |
| ' 'Tis but the dross He throws away ' | - |
James Whitcomb Riley
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