Samuel, Aged Nine Years Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EAEA EFEF GHGH AIAI GJGK LCLC MNMN GOGO APAP LQLQ QFQF ERER| They have left you little Henry but they have not left you lonely | A |
| Brothers' hearts so knit together could not might not separate dwell | B |
| Fain to seek you in the mansions far away One lingered only | A |
| To bid those behind farewell | B |
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| Gentle Boy His childlike nature in most guileless form was moulded | C |
| And it may be that his spirit woke in glory unaware | D |
| Since so calmly he resigned it with his hands still meekly folded | C |
| Having said his evening prayer | D |
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| Or if conscious of that summons Speak O Lord Thy servant heareth | E |
| As one said whose name they gave him might his willing answer be | A |
| Here am I like him replying At Thy gates my soul appeareth | E |
| For behold Thou calledst me | A |
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| A deep silence utter silence on his earthly home descendeth | E |
| Reading playing sleeping waking he is gone and few remain | F |
| O the loss they utter weeping every voice its echo lendeth | E |
| O the loss But O the gain | F |
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| On that tranquil shore his spirit was vouchsafed an early landing | G |
| Lest the toils of crime should stain it or the thrall of guilt control | H |
| Lest that wickedness should alter the yet simple understanding | G |
| Or deceit beguile his soul | H |
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| Lay not up on earth thy treasure they have read that sentence duly | A |
| Moth and rust shall fret thy riches earthly good hath swift decay | I |
| Even so each heart replieth As for me my riches truly | A |
| Make them wings and flee away | I |
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| O my riches O my children dearest part of life and being | G |
| Treasures looked to for the solace of this life's declining years | J |
| Were our voices cold to hearing or our faces cold to seeing | G |
| That ye left us to our tears | K |
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| We inherit conscious silence ceasing of some merry laughter | L |
| And the hush of two sweet voices healing sounds for spirits bruised | C |
| Of the tread of joyous footsteps in the pathway following after | L |
| Of two names no longer used | C |
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| Question for them little Sister in your sweet and childish fashion | M |
| Search and seek them Baby Brother with your calm and asking eyes | N |
| Dimpled lips that fail to utter fond appeal or sad compassion | M |
| Mild regret or dim surprise | N |
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| There are two tall trees above you by the high east window growing | G |
| Underneath them slumber sweetly lapt in silence deep serene | O |
| Save when pealing in the distance organ notes towards you flowing | G |
| Echo with a pause between | O |
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| And that pause a voice shall fill it tones that blessed you daily nightly | A |
| Well beloved but not sufficing Sleepers to awake you now | P |
| Though so near he stand that shadows from your trees may tremble lightly | A |
| On his book and on his brow | P |
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| Sleep then ever Neither singing of sweet birds shall break your slumber | L |
| Neither fall of dew nor sunshine dance of leaves nor drift of snow | Q |
| Charm those dropt lids more to open nor the tranquil bosoms cumber | L |
| With one care for things below | Q |
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| It is something the assurance that you ne'er shall feel like sorrow | Q |
| Weep no past and dread no future know not sighing feel not pain | F |
| Nor a day that looketh forward to a mournfuller to morrow | Q |
| Clouds returning after rain | F |
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| No far off the daylight breaketh in its beams each soul awaketh | E |
| What though clouds they sigh be gathered dark and stormy to the view | R |
| Though the light our eyes forsaketh fresh and sweet behold it breaketh | E |
| Into endless day for you | R |
Jean Ingelow
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