Midnight-september 19, 1881 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DADA EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLMN OPOP QRQR RSRS RTRT URUR RHRH VWVW XYXY ZA2ZA2 B2C2B2C2| DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD | A |
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| ONCE in a lifetime we may see the veil | B |
| Tremble and lift that hides symbolic things | C |
| The Spirit's vision when the senses fail | B |
| Sweeps the weird meaning that the outlook brings | C |
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| Deep in the midst of turmoil it may be | D |
| A crowded street a forum or a field | A |
| The soul inverts the telescope to see | D |
| To day's event in future's years revealed | A |
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| Back from the present let us look at Rome | E |
| Behold what Cato meant what Brutus said | F |
| Hark the Athenians welcome Cimon home | E |
| How clear they are those glimpses of the dead | F |
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| But we hard toilers we who plan and weave | G |
| Through common days the web of common life | H |
| What word alas shall teach us to receive | G |
| The mystic meaning of our peace and strife | H |
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| Whence comes our symbol Surely God must speak | I |
| No less than He can make us heed or pause | J |
| Self seekers we too busy or too weak | I |
| To search beyond our daily lives and laws | J |
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| From things occult our earth turned eyes rebel | K |
| No sound of Destiny can reach our ears | L |
| We have no time for dreaming Hark a knell | M |
| A knell at midnight All the nation hears | N |
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| A second grievous throb The dreamers wake | O |
| The merchant's soul forgets his goods and ships | P |
| The weary workmen from their slumbers break | O |
| The women raise their eyes with quivering lips | P |
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| The miner rests upon his pick to hear | Q |
| The printer's type stops midway from the case | R |
| The solemn sound has reached the roysterer's ear | Q |
| And brought the shame and sorrow to his face | R |
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| Again it booms O Mystic Veil upraise | R |
| Behold 'tis lifted On the darkness drawn | S |
| A picture lined with light The people's gaze | R |
| Prom sea to sea beholds it till the dawn | S |
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| A death bed scene a sinking sufferer lies | R |
| Their chosen ruler crowned with love and pride | T |
| Around his counselors with streaming eyes | R |
| His wife heart broken kneeling by his side | T |
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| Death's shadow holds her it will pass too soon | U |
| She weeps in silence bitterest of tears | R |
| He wanders softly Nature's kindest boon | U |
| And as he murmurs all the country hears | R |
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| For him the pain is past the struggle ends | R |
| His cares and honors fade his younger life | H |
| In peaceful Mentor conies with dear old friends | R |
| His mother's arms take home his dear young wife | H |
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| He stands among the students tall and strong | V |
| And teaches truths republican and grand | W |
| He moves ah pitiful he sweeps along | V |
| O'er fields of carnage leading his command | W |
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| He speaks to crowded faces round him surge | X |
| Thousands and millions of excited men | Y |
| He hears them cheer sees some vast light emerge | X |
| Is borne as on a tempest then ah then | Y |
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| The fancies fade the fever's work is past | Z |
| A deepened pang then recollection's thrill | A2 |
| He feels the faithful lips that kiss their last | Z |
| His heart beats once in answer and is still | A2 |
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| The curtain falls but hushed as if afraid | B2 |
| The people wait tear stained with heaving breast | C2 |
| 'Twill rise again they know when he is laid | B2 |
| With Freedom in the Capitol at rest | C2 |
John Boyle O'reilly
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