Grace. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DCDC EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNJN OPOP QHQH| JUNE | A |
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| So still you sleep upon your bed | B |
| So motionless and slender | C |
| It cannot be that you are dead | B |
| My maiden gay and tender | C |
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| You were no creature pale and meek | D |
| That death should hasten after | C |
| The dimples played within your cheek | D |
| Your lips were made for laughter | C |
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| To you the great world was a place | E |
| That care might never stay in | F |
| A playground built by God's good grace | E |
| For glad young folks to play in | F |
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| You made your footpath by life's flowers | G |
| O happy care free maiden | H |
| The sky was full of shine and showers | G |
| The wind was perfume laden | H |
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| Your dimpled hands are folded now | I |
| Upon your snowy bosom | J |
| The dark hair nestles on your brow | I |
| O tender broken blossom | J |
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| The white lids hide your eyes so clear | K |
| So mirthful so beguiling | L |
| But as my tears fall on you dear | K |
| Your lips seem softly smiling | L |
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| And do you feel that it is home | M |
| The city far above us | N |
| And were they glad to have you come | J |
| And will you cease to love us | N |
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| Methinks when you stand all in white | O |
| To learn each sweet new duty | P |
| Some eye will note with keen delight | O |
| Your radiance and beauty | P |
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| And when your laughter softly rings | Q |
| Out where God's streets do glisten | H |
| The angels fair will fold their wings | Q |
| And still their song to listen | H |
Jean Blewett
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