Forever Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DEEF FGGC CHIJ JKKC| THOSE we love truly never die | A |
| Though year by year the sad memorial wreath | B |
| A ring and flowers types of life and death | C |
| Are laid upon their graves | D |
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| For death the pure life saves | D |
| And life all pure is love and love can reach | E |
| From heaven to earth and nobler lessons teach | E |
| Than those by mortals read | F |
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| Well blest is he who has a dear one dead | F |
| A friend he has whose face will never change | G |
| A dear communion that will not grow strange | G |
| The anchor of a love is death | C |
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| The blessed sweetness of a loving breath | C |
| Will reach our cheek all fresh through weary years | H |
| For her who died long since ah waste not tears | I |
| She's thine unto the end | J |
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| Thank God for one dead friend | J |
| With face still radiant with the light of truth | K |
| Whose love comes laden with the scent of youth | K |
| Through twenty years of death | C |
John Boyle O'reilly
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